Mary Berry Quotes
'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.
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I think you create your own hipness.
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I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.
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Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don’t know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.
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'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.
