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.Hilary Mantel
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
Nas -
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 -
I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.
Calista Flockhart
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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc -
The first ghosts trembled with hope, and their excitement passed back like a ripple over the long line behind them, young children and aged parents alike looking up and ahead with delight and wonder as the first stars they had seen for centuries shone through into their poor starved eyes.
Philip Pullman -
there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
Lois Wyse -
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.
C. S. Lewis -
Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.
Nia Long
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I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.
Jon Bon Jovi -
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
Victoria Osteen -
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
John Buchan -
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Hilary Mantel