Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
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You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.
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He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'
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There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.
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Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
