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 want to give you a way to eat your broccoli in a way that you actually want to eat it.
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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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It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and-stripped of the ability to get drunk on it-wine was just sour grape juice.
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As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a 'free' line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as 'free' as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
