Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.
