Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.
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My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.
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I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
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I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.
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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
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Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
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All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
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You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.
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Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.
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But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.
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I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.
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Let's put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men. There are more of them.
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Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.
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He didn’t know who she was, but she was too crazy to be holding anything in a test tube.
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Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.
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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
