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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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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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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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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The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.
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I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
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If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
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The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
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I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.
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I've always been comfortable in my own skin - sometimes a little too comfortable, which in turn makes other people uncomfortable.
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Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.
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I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.
