Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time … love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
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Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
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As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.
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It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.
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Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
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You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.
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Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?
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My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
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Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
