Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.
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Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it.
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
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The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.
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We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
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I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
