Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I'd be at places with people I cared about, but what I was thinking about was how much extra grease was on the pizza or the calories that I knew was in that shake.
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Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'
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I got no hate in me.
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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
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If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.
