Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

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• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• 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.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• 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.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Write
  • Most

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • War
  • Mean
  • Struggle

• I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Children
  • Family
  • Massive

• Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Health
  • Care
  • Impossible

• By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Market

• I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Past
  • Mistakes
  • Negative

• 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.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Criticism
  • Worst
  • Own

• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Age

• We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Littles
  • Pieces
  • Infinite

• 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.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma

• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Family
  • Soul

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Research
  • Skills
  • Gathering

• The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • Time
  • Book
  • Free

• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Fear
  • Practice
  • Worry

• I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Skills
  • Narrative