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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The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.
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In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.
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A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.
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Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.
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When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.
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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.
