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.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• 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.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • Together
  • Parents

• I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Hiking

• Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wars
  • Pleasures
  • Delicate

• 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.

  

  Edward Sapir
  • Fear
  • Wish
  • Fashion

• I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements

• 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.

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Life
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• 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.

  

  Allen West
  • Country
  • America
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Kristin Lehman
  • God
  • Meaningful

• Let's put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men. There are more of them.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Men

• Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland

• I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • School
  • Job
  • College

• The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

  

  John Dingell
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

  

  William Odom
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Office

• How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Ambition

• I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • School
  • Education
  • Boys

• Daniel Geale is the next chapter in my career. After I get through him, I can talk about what comes next.

  

  Miguel Cotto
  • Careers
  • Chapters

• This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Simple
  • Spirit
  • Memories

• My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Ambition
  • Boys
  • Careers