Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Margaret Thatcher was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • Know
  • Never

• I accept reality and dare not question it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Reality
  • Question
  • Dare

• When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  

  Washington Irving
  • History

• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-For years fleet away with the wings of the dove- The dearest remembrance will still be the last,Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Past
  • Kiss

• You always want to look your best at events like the Globes, Emmys, or Oscars. It's a part of the business that I am not particularly comfortable with. I would prefer to turn up in a pair of jeans and an old shirt, but it's all about image - the studio wants you to look your best.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Business

• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Age

• I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

  

  Loretta Sanchez
  • People
  • Different
  • Support

• I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Music
  • Free

• I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • School
  • Career

• I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Evil

• I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • World
  • Trying
  • Nice

• I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley

• I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.

  

  Adam West
  • Up
  • Family
  • Remember

• It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Remember
  • War
  • Feelings

• Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Said

• I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • Important
  • Issues
  • Reform

• I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Simple

• Margaret Thatcher was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Country
  • Running
  • Pretending