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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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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I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.
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Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
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Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
