Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
-
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
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.
-
We need to see a Palestinian state.
-
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.
-
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
-
Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
-
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.'
-
Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
-
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
-
It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
-
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
-
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
-
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
-
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
-
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!
-
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
-
While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'
-
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
-
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
