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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If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!
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I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
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I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
