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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Directing is a very, very difficult job.
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Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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You can't really explain why things happen.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
