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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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
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Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
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Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
