Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
One of the ideals Margaret Thatcher grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.
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Even miracles take a little time.
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The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.
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Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
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I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.
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Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.
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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.
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Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.
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One of the ideals Margaret Thatcher grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.
