Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Hilary Mantel
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Damien Hirst
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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.
Anton Zaslavski
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.'
Frances McDormand
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
Tatiana Maslany
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
Hannah Cowley
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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!
Cara Delevingne
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
P. T. Barnum
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
A. E. Housman
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison
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It's a terrible feeling being lonely.
Rita Ora
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I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.
Charles Best