Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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Music has always been around with me.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
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Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
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I love writing Scottish dialogue.
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I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
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Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
