Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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I was born in the U.S. This is my country.
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We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.
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I have no desire to look at myself.
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I think that women's lives are multilayered.
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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.
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I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
