Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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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...
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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.
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In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.
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In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
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I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
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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.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
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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.
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'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.'
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It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
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I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork.
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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.
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You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.
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We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
