Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

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• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Yourself
  • Actor
  • Easy

• If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Question

• I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger.

  

  Eminem
  • Little
  • Middle

• Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot

• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life

• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

  

  Conrad Black
  • Opinion
  • Greed

• In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Life
  • America
  • Insurance

• You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Political
  • Worry

• We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Career

• We don't want to plaster Mumbai with pictures of Will Smith. We want to make an exchange. We want to do films there as well as introduce Indian actors and directors to the United States.

  

  James Lassiter

• 'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Holiday

• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  

  James Patterson
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Parents

• God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Passion

• And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg

• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  

  C. F. W. Walther
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Pieces
  • Degrees
  • Who I Am

• My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Guy

• In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Time
  • Football

• If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Joy
  • Degrees
  • Impulse