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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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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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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AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.
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And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
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I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.
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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
