Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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I don't need much coaxing.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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'WTF is MDNA?
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New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
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Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
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I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.
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The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?
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I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building.
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A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
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Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
