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

• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Religion
  • Civilization
  • Great Elements

• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • War
  • Past

• What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

  

  Adam Garfinkle
  • Past
  • Present
  • Interests

• I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Past
  • Swimming
  • Motions

• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Members
  • Admitted

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

  

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