Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

Hilary Mantel

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• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • School
  • Nice

• I come with bad genetics, personally.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Bad
  • Personally
  • Genetics

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• It was never a plan to be an actor.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Plan

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Country
  • Home

• It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Interesting
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Wedding

• I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • War
  • Black
  • Army

• If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Inspired

• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Live
  • True

• You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • World

• Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • She
  • Selfish

• I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Time
  • Fashion

• Studio execs were like, ''Lord of the Rings!' People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!' No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from successes.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • People
  • Great

• When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Commitment

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• I don't play in any tournaments to come second best.

  

  Andy Murray

• When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Men
  • Passion

• I've already told the police what happened, they didn't believe me. Why should you.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Believe
  • Police

• History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

  

  Hilary Mantel