Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
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I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
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Touring for two years is excruciating.
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.
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The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
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The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
