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
  • Change
  • Know
  • 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

• There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • Character

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

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People

• My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Me
  • Look
  • Everything

• We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Band
  • Present
  • Emotional

• What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Breathe

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

  

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