Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.
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When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.
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I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.
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It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
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Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
