Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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As young women, we all feel a pressure to look a certain way, and sometimes it is just too much to handle. But, there are good and bad ways to deal with this pressure. A terrible way to handle this pressure is to complain about all of our flaws and expect other girls to join in.
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The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
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Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.
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When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.
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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing
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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
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There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
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We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.
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I come from a very blue-collar family, and a very hardworking family, and I think that my work ethic is maybe the thing that kept me on the straight and narrow.
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I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.
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If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
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Did you see the speed of the ball or not?
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What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.
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When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
