Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Experiences

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Up
  • Change
  • Year

• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Moving
  • Speed
  • Efficiency

• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Support
  • President
  • Vacancy

• Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Way

• If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

  

  William McDonough
  • Moving
  • Games
  • Ends

• A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Brotherhood
  • Noble

• Sometimes you just gotta get in front of the camera because sometimes you have a long break between things, or you're auditioning and maybe nothing's really happening.

  

  Jonathan Lipnicki
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Break

• I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

  

  Pam Gems
  • World
  • Real
  • Lost

• The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us nothing about the historical Jesus and the world he and his disciples lived in. I've heard it said, that if all we had was the Gospel of Thomas, would we even know that Jesus was Jewish?

  

  Craig A. Evans
  • World
  • Historical
  • Ignored

• We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

  

  John Lewis
  • Right
  • Health care
  • Privilege

• When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

  

  Rumi
  • Light
  • Source
  • Illuminated

• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Shapes
  • Historian
  • Select