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.Hilary Mantel
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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?
Ogden Nash -
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
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.
Fran Lebowitz -
Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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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.
A. R. Rahman -
I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
Wayne Knight -
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
Jack Levine -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
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.
Brian Moore
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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.
Preet Bharara -
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.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
Jerry Weintraub -
As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
Ann Romney -
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
Kevin Hart -
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Ally Sheedy
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You whites make all the ammunition.
Red Cloud -
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
Kathryn Lasky -
A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value.
Joe Grant -
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
Hilary Mantel