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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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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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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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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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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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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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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Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.
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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
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Europeans have enjoyed a comfy ride for the last sixty years–but the very fact that they don't want it to stop increases their rage and sense of being besieged by Muslim minorities they've long refused to assimilate (and which no longer want to assimilate).
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Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
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I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
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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.
