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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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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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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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of 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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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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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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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
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I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.
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If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
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I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
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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.
