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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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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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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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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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 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.
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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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We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.
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As soon as I tried to remove the label, a lie formed. In the end, that lie created a barrier way worse than the original one. How crazy is that? Ironic, I mean. I created a barrier getting rid of a barrier.
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I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
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I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University of Nebraska, where I grew as a man.
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
