Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.
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I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.
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Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.
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I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.
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One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
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Oils have the most wonderful effect on the complexion due to their high affinity with the skin.
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I'm the middle child.
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The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them.
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So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
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I have been performing as long as I can remember, so I built my craft. People think I was discovered after the first show I played once I landed in L.A., and it just happened instantly - overnight. The truth is, I was performing wherever I could for five years.
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My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
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Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
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I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Open-source is a means of production.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.
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Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
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Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.
