Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would not have to undergo them for herself. But, how are our certainties forged, except by the sweat and tears of other people? If your parents don't teach you how to live; you learn it from books; and clever people watch you learn from your mistakes.Hilary Mantel
Quotes to Explore
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan -
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth -
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
Rachel Platten -
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
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During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
Sal Albanese -
How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
Alanis Morissette -
There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.
Anton Chekhov -
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
Eric Fischl -
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
James Hillman -
When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written.
Chris Pratt
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I could not be more thankful to those who voted me through and believed in me.
Brynn Cartelli -
I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
Maya Angelou -
One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
Peter Capaldi -
I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
Fred Korematsu -
I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.
Brian Dennehy
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People think of me and think, 'Ibiza and hippy look.' I'm trying to expand.
Matthew Williamson -
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West -
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther -
Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.
Sophie McShera -
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would not have to undergo them for herself. But, how are our certainties forged, except by the sweat and tears of other people? If your parents don't teach you how to live; you learn it from books; and clever people watch you learn from your mistakes.
Hilary Mantel