Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Margaret Thatcher aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.
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A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.
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Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
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It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.
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If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
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I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
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When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
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God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.
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Margaret Thatcher aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.
