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.Hilary Mantel
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
Oxana Chusovitina -
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
Harry Browne -
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.
Adam Driver -
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
Daniel Cormier
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
Dan Fogelberg -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Ophelia Lovibond -
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.
Wendell Pierce -
I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
Quentin Bryce -
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
Felix Frankfurter
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Edgar Degas -
I wouldn't know how to retire.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.
Kathryn Harrison -
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb -
When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England.
Douglas Booth -
I have always loved fashion and clothes. I mean, I was Grace Kelly for Halloween in fifth grade, which is why going to Monaco was so incredible - I've always kind of been obsessed with her.
Ahna O'Reilly
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I like Barack Obama.
Bobby Seale -
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo Burnett -
A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.
Chogyam Trungpa -
I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can be, the best spinner I can be. Nothing is easy about that. But I'm doing whatever I can to be the best.
Max Aaron -
Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.
Barack Obama -
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.
Hilary Mantel