Ambition Quote by Mary Nightingale

I was a decent cook - competent enough to turn out the standard Eighties chalet fare: beef Wellington, banoffee pie, Delia's chocolate bread-and-butter pudding…

— Mary Nightingale

The challenge of election broadcasting is to stick to the story and line.

— Mary Nightingale

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

— Mary Nightingale

Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at…

— Mary Nightingale

It doesn't matter what you look like. If you can't do the job you will soon be found out.

— Mary Nightingale

I'm a good dressmaker. When I was a student I made all my own clothes, and earned good money making ball gowns and wedding…

— Mary Nightingale

Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box.…

— Mary Nightingale

I was offered a screen test for a business show on Japanese TV. I did it for a laugh, really, and I got the…

— Mary Nightingale

It's not your job to be warm on the news; you can be empathetic, but you can't emote. That can be difficult sometimes -…

— Mary Nightingale

I didn't come from the sort of family where Daddy would provide - so I had to work.

— Mary Nightingale

There's not a pie that I don't like.

— Mary Nightingale

First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are…

— Mary Nightingale