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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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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In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
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She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
