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

• You can rest assured that his salary is in line with where he has brought the program in the Big East and nationally. We've provided him with a good salary, one that is competitive in the Big East and one that shows we're happy to have him as our head coach.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Coach
  • Competitive
  • Salary

• 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

• My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My sweet ass has been in this car.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Car
  • Sweet

• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Good
  • True
  • Words

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

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Shapes
  • Historian
  • Select