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.

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• 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 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

• 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

• It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Guy

• On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Comedy

• Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Relationship

• Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Destruction

• I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

  

  Alec Baldwin
  • Want
  • Know
  • Politics

• You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

  

  David Mamet
  • Money
  • Luck

• I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Sweet

• If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.

  

  Simon Mainwaring
  • Environment
  • Care
  • Capitalism

• 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