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.
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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.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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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.
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There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.
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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
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I could not be more thankful to those who voted me through and believed in me.
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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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.
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I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
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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.
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People think of me and think, 'Ibiza and hippy look.' I'm trying to expand.
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Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.
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Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.
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I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.
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I eat way too fast.
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
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It could go from a swing feel to a real primitive tribal thing and into some kind of chaos, all in one moment.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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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.
