Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
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All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, or Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.
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God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
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I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
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To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.
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I'd like to be making more films more frequently, but I do find that making movies, for me, has proven to be an extremely challenging road. No movie is easy; no movie has come together quickly.
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For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.
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A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.
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At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
