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

• I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

  

  John Hancock
  • Time
  • Forward

• I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

  

  Paul Michael Glaser
  • Acting
  • Finance
  • Directing

• 'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

  

  Katie Stevens
  • People
  • She
  • American

• What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

  

  Bryan White
  • Music
  • Country
  • Trying

• Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Merchandise
  • Senseless
  • Gaudy

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

  

  Hilary Mantel