Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The world is always terrible.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.
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As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.
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Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.
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Crooks are early adopters.
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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
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[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.
