Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Hilary Mantel
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
J. B. Pritzker
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Orson Scott Card
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
Naomi Campbell
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.
Karrie Webb
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I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that 'it happened' – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense 'the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context').
Linus Torvalds
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I wear sunscreen every single day - I just don't go out of the house without it. I also try to get enough sleep, eat as healthy as I can and keep hydrated. I have very sensitive skin, and depending on what products are used on a shoot, my skin can break out in an instant.
Dylan Penn
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For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Charles Hazlewood
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
Jenni Rivera
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The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
Fritz Haber
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I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.
Duncan Jones
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Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.
Samuel Pepys
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it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.
William Shakespeare
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When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.
Hilary Mantel
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus
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My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
CeeLo Green
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A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Hilary Mantel