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 could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Will
  • London
  • Go

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Afraid
  • Dragons
  • Ghosts

• 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
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• 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
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• 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
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • American
  • Fun
  • Simple

• 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
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Dirty

• 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
  • Something
  • Happen
  • Respond

• 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
  • Never
  • Got
  • Jeans

• There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Success

• 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
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Angry

• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Die

• 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
  • Boss

• 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
  • Why
  • Fashion
  • Halloween

• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Culture
  • City

• If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.

  

  Anthony Albanese
  • Life
  • Lawyer

• I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.

  

  Christie Hefner

• It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • True
  • Funny
  • Tolerance

• I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Role
  • Networking

• To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Revenge

• 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
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Effort