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" I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes and some colour to my face, as without it, I look pale and uninteresting. "
Mary Berry
Pink
Look
Colour
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" I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children. "
Mary Berry
Home
Father
Children
" '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. "
Mary Berry
Family
End
Beginning
" Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves. "
Mary Berry
Think
I Am
Style
" To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind. "
Mary Berry
Job
Home
Walk
" Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine. "
Mary Berry
Used
Say
Children
" I think to eat cake is very good for us, but it's the size of the slice and how often you have it. "
Mary Berry
Good
You
Think
" You've got to pay an awful lot for your hotel before you get fresh orange juice. If a hotel has got proper orange juice - and you do expect it if you're abroad - I rank the hotel highly. "
Mary Berry
You
Orange
Juice
" I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation and uniformity are paramount; I'm more interested in taste. I don't mind if one bun is smaller than the others, or if there's a little pastry cracking, though I don't want a soggy bottom. "
Mary Berry
Mind
Want
Admire
" While we're filming 'Bake Off,' I can get really cold, so I'm often holding a hot-water bottle or layered up under an anorak and a warm hat. "
Mary Berry
I Can
Warm
Up
" At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children. "
Mary Berry
Children
Family
Living
" I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science. "
Mary Berry
Rather
Hopeless
Good
" Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table. "
Mary Berry
Never
Table
Put
" All-in-one dishes are among my favourites. I'm very much in favour of using the oven as much as possible - for casseroles, roasts and other one-pot meals - rather than the hob, where dishes need much more attention. "
Mary Berry
Need
Attention
Where
" Before the start of each new series, I go shopping for my 'Bake Off' wardrobe. I've got increasingly confident with my look and now wear much more colour than I did at the start. "
Mary Berry
Shopping
Start
Confident
" I'm not great on the florals. I think you've got to wear what you're happy in and that is fun but isn't mutton dressed up as lamb. "
Mary Berry
Happy
Dressed
Fun
" It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career. "
Mary Berry
Home
Keep
Happy
" All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way. "
Mary Berry
Saturday
Grace
Cake
" I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous. "
Mary Berry
Child
Sea
Looking
" When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid. "
Mary Berry
Way
Up
You
" One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified. "
Mary Berry
Boss
Trip
Gone
" I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more. "
Mary Berry
Love
Think
Time
" We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme. "
Mary Berry
Meadow
Three
Duck
" Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut. "
Mary Berry
Cake
September
Perfect
" I have no burning ambitions, and I can honestly say the thing I love most is 'Bake Off.' That will always come first. "
Mary Berry
Always
First
Say
" I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting. "
Mary Berry
Christmas
Way
I Am
" I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old. "
Mary Berry
Old
Know
People
" It's so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice. "
Mary Berry
Small
Just One
Just
" A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted 'The Bake Off' to be an antidote to that. "
Mary Berry
Bullying
Reality
Lot
" I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.' "
Mary Berry
Think
People
Want
" I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that. "
Mary Berry
Good
Deep
Fat