Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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Land is everything.
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I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
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I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
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Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
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I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.
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If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
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I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.
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The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
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It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
