Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.Hilary Mantel
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen -
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz -
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama -
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Zachary Levi -
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
Kaspar Hauser -
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
Tana French -
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. Wilson -
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
Yelawolf -
You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
Kat Graham
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My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
Oscar Levant -
Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
Warren Farrell -
And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
Jack Vance -
'Why,' said another, 'Some there are who tell Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell The luckless Pots he marr'd in making - Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well'.
Omar Khayyam -
I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.
Lindsey Buckingham -
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
Betty Ford
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There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.
Bill Jay -
They would like to thank the community, their friends and other family that came in and lent so much warmth love and compassion.
Kenny Johnson -
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Most style is not honest enough.
F. L. Lucas -
The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
Condola Rashad -
What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
Hilary Mantel