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

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

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Yourself
  • Actor
  • Easy

• 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

• 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

• '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

• I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

  

  Lauren Gibbs

• Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Eyes

• Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • People

• My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Father

• I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

  

  Charles Saatchi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I thought I would be laying hardwood floors in Colorado - a construction worker. Middle class or working class, that's where I was! I just fought because I loved it. It was so fun! Being able to go in there and outthink your opponents.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Fun

• The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

  

  Liz Murray
  • People
  • World
  • Hand

• I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Done
  • Help

• Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Compassion

• We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

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

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Joy
  • Degrees
  • Impulse