Mary Berry Quotes

I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusual about me. I'm just a mum and a granny who is teaching cookery on TV. Basically, I'm very ordinary.

Mary Berry

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• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Place
  • Loved
  • Cute

• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Health
  • Wife
  • Training

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Pressure
  • Rise

• The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Book
  • King
  • Stephen King

• I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Money
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Why

• Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Society

• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Die
  • Broken

• The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Time
  • Anonymous
  • L.A.

• Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Political
  • Serious

• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• «The measures we take harm people, but they are imperative.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • People

• The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy.

  

  Al Gore
  • Knowledge
  • Democracy
  • Enlightenment

• I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Thinking
  • Relationship
  • Meaningful

• Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Mysterious

• For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America - racism, division, discrimination, misogyny - during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • America
  • Trump
  • Racism

• I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusual about me. I'm just a mum and a granny who is teaching cookery on TV. Basically, I'm very ordinary.

  

  Mary Berry