Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about Margaret Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

Hilary Mantel

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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.

Wendy Davis
- Women
- Health
- Risk
I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

Rachel Keller
- Time
- Feeling
- Body
I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

Tamsin Greig
- Music
- Poetry
- Language
I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

Yohan Blake
- World
- True
- Dream
You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
- English
- Knows
- Speak
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

Han Suyin
- Family
- Mound