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.
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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.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
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We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.
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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.
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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.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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I think continually of those who were truly great.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
