Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.Hilary Mantel
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
Hannah Murray -
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
Yair Lapid -
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney -
I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
Caitriona Balfe -
I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
Cameron Crowe -
I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
Nancy Pickard
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
Edmund Phelps -
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Abraham Lincoln -
Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number.
Lynn Margulis -
A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing.
Mark Ronson -
Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
Caroline Corr -
In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
Benedict Wong
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Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
Brian Boitano -
I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.
Mark Fuhrman -
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
Christiane Amanpour -
You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.
Kevin Hart -
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore -
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.
Bobby Sands
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I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.
Alessandro Michele -
We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.
Delloreese Patricia Early -
You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
Leslie Odom, Jr. -
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
Craig Bruce -
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
Jeffrey Archer -
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
Hilary Mantel