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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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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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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That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.
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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
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He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.
