Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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A million years went by quick.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
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An Angel's smile is what you sell, You promise me heaven then put me through hell.
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Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
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I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.
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Directing is a very, very difficult job.
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The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
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I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
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You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
