Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

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• I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Good
  • Art
  • Preparation

• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Will
  • Strength

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
  • Change
  • Afraid

• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• I'm a huge 'SK-II' person. I'm their Malaysian spokesperson. But I truly love their products - it's not just something that I endorse. I always moisturize with the SK-II Essential Power Rich Cream.

  

  Yuna
  • Power
  • Person
  • Rich

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Beginning

• There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Women
  • Society
  • Change

• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Daily

• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Microsoft
  • E-mail

• I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Nobody's made an impact like Raina Telgemeier or Kate Beaton. I think that indie creators, people making webcomics and graphic novels, are the ones to watch.

  

  Kate Leth
  • People

• People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Real
  • Love

• Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • World
  • Different