Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.
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Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
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Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
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We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.
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I don't fear death. But I don't like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If I'm going to die, take me out now. Don't let me suffer. That's not exactly the way I wanted to go. I don't want to be in limbo, I don't want to know that I might die. The mights don't work with me. I'm too literal.
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!
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The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.
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I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
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Everyone needs an open mind and an accepting heart. With a combination of these two aspects, you will be able to communicate sensibly.
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She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
