Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.
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I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.
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For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.
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If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.
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A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!
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It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.
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People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.
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I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.
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There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...
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I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.
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Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.
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The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.
