Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.

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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.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Community
  • Back

• If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • You

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Best
  • Goal

• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • World
  • Better
  • Commitment

• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Just
  • Number
  • Parts

• 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.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People
  • Free
  • Community

• Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Education
  • Perfect
  • Greatness

• I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• 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.

  

  Jaycie Phelps
  • People
  • Help
  • Goals

• Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Up
  • Men
  • Insecurity

• One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Age
  • Moments
  • Challenges

• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn't have much to do in them.

  

  Kriti Sanon

• Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Good
  • Man
  • Invention

• There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Monarchy