Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Hilary Mantel

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• I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Good
  • Want

• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Law
  • Action
  • Fast

• If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Look
  • Ask

• I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Maternal

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Will
  • Once
  • Take Advantage

• If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Trying
  • Silly
  • Season

• Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Comedy

• Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Day

• Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Work
  • Myself

• An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Education

• Je suis condamné à être libre.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Up
  • Home
  • Science

• The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Important
  • War
  • History

• To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Sweet
  • Improvement

• When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Death
  • Energy

• It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Work
  • Rip

• When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Movie
  • Political

• The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

  

  Phyllis A. Whitney

• The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • World
  • Prison

• In every school, community center, city hall, and state capitol, there are women who are making their voices heard and standing up for the people they serve - women who aren't just demanding change but finding ways to create it. They are making an impact, and along the way, they're inspiring others to do the same.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Magic
  • Naked

• To write, you have to want something to survive you.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Write
  • Survive

• If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

  

  Hilary Mantel