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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Together
  • Proud
  • Destiny

• Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  

  Epictetus

• Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Sports

• I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

  

  Bong Joon-ho
  • English
  • Japanese

• The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

  

  Fred Tomaselli
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• I love to play with textures and colors. I mix them together like I would in a painting.

  

  Chloe Gosselin
  • Together
  • Painting

• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

  

  John Heywood
  • Happy

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Soul

• Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

  

  Little Richard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Country Music

• Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Influence

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

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Country
  • Running
  • Pretending