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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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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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
