Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

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• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Man
  • Black

• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Live
  • Best
  • Thing

• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Red

• What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Alone
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Just
  • Go

• I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happy

• 'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Nice

• I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

  

  Lady Gaga

• I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • School
  • Church

• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Success
  • Style

• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • Home
  • Personality

• I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Book
  • Giving

• 'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Different

• When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Picture

• It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.

  

  Mary Lou Retton
  • People
  • America
  • Weird

• When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Book
  • Fashion
  • Reviewers