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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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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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 literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.
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Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
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The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.
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Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.
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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.
