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.
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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!
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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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.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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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.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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'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
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
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Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
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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.
