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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It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.
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Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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I don't recommend skipping college, but things have worked out for me.
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
