Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Hilary Mantel

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• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Always
  • See
  • Look

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired

• For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Time
  • Long
  • Peace

• The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Couple
  • Playing
  • Breakthrough

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Time
  • Good

• Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Born
  • Issue
  • Obama

• What you see is what you see.

  

  Frank Stella

• Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Spiritual
  • Sacrifice

• I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • People
  • Road

• A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

  

  Chinua Achebe

• I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • People
  • Problem
  • Struggle

• I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • People

• It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Desire