Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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The opponents of EEC membership inside the Labour Party know how much more difficult it would be to foist their brand of left-wing socialism on the British people if we remain part of a Community based on the principles of free enterprise and the mixed economy. We in the Conservative Party must vigorously oppose this ominous development.
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Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
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I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.
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It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.
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I take biotin to make sure hair and nails are growing well.
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I will show you the path to the spirit world.
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People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
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Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.
