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.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• 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.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Film
  • Easy

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Lost
  • Effort

• The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • American
  • Fashion

• You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Always

• 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!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die

• A million years went by quick.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Years
  • Million
  • Quick

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• 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.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Compassion

• An Angel's smile is what you sell, You promise me heaven then put me through hell.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Heaven
  • Smile
  • Promise

• Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People

• 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.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happy

• Directing is a very, very difficult job.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Job

• You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • May
  • Health
  • Serious

• I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Past
  • Present
  • Red

• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Home
  • Past
  • Surface

• The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • Time

• Castellani's testimony clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • Reform
  • Testimony
  • Illustrates

• History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

  

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