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.
Hilary Mantel
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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.
Dana Goodyear
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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.
Uday Kotak
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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.
Iris Apfel
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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.
Maeve Binchy
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi
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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.
Ogden Nash
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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!
Garth Brooks
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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.
Ornette Coleman
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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.
T-Pain
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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.
Dan Levitan
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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.
David Mixner
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He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.
Elizabeth Chandler
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My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
Charles Van Doren
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I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.
Ami Bera
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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.
Hilary Mantel
