Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Hilary Mantel

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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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Work
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Child
  • Self-Esteem

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• 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.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Snow

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Vicious

• 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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Better
  • Tennis

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Wrong
  • Frustration

• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Actor
  • FBI

• Land is everything.

  

  Burt Shavitz

• I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Denise Mina

• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Value

• 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.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Up
  • Single

• I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Party

• I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.

  

  Chelsea Manning

• 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.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Great
  • Book
  • Dream

• Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

  

  Maximilian Schell

• It film-making really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Way
  • Film
  • End

• This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Lies
  • Sea

• As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  

  William James
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Challenges

• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Age

• Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Sweet
  • Lying
  • Sin