Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Hilary Mantel
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
Manolo Blahnik
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
KaDee Strickland
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
Randi Weingarten
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
Ian Anthony Dale
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
Gary Ross
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Action, not words.
Edward Heath
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I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.
David MacKenzie
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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner
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It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.
David Tang
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Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older.
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
Varley O'Connor
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Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.
Bill Gates
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Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succeeds.
Donna Brazile
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People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
Dan Barker
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Hilary Mantel
