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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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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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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I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.
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Has anyone actually asked the customer if they want to have something available directly after the show? You hear that three bags are going to be released tomorrow in five shops, so you produce 15 bags. How many customers are you going to satisfy with that? Fifteen!
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The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
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I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.
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Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.
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She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
