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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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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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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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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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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Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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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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You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
