Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

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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
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Children
  • Hope

• 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
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • You

• To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Business
  • Leader
  • Research

• The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Power
  • Wish

• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Try
  • Politicians
  • Cease

• Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Losing

• 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
  • House
  • Single
  • Sleep

• For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Long
  • Desire

• 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

• 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
  • Family
  • School
  • Happy

• People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Architecture

• There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Life

• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  

  Penelope Spheeris
  • Money

• It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • People
  • Up

• Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Important

• Koresh believed that God had a plan that would go contrary to any human planning.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • God
  • Planning

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.

  

  W. Phillip Keller
  • Good

• A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

  

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