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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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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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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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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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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The man did not move because only immobility could hurt more than motion: the man held himself still because to move might lessen his suffering, and that he could not bear. For him only pain had meaning.
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there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
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In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
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The entire Godhead, the Triune God, became flesh.
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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.
