Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I don't like possessions.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
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When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.
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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
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Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
