Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
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I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
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Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.
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We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.
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Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.
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In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.
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So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
