Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
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I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
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Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.
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I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
