Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

Hilary Mantel

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• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • You
  • Like
  • Act

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Mountain

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Doing

• Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Men

• Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Great
  • Country
  • Priority

• Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • Life

• I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Discipline

• Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how the 9/11 firemen were venerated.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Strong

• This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Pain

• I can say with some confidence that President Zardari's legacy will be written in golden words. I don't say this as his son, or patron-and-chief of the Pakistan People's Party - but as a student of history.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • People
  • History
  • Words

• Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Women

• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  

  Douglas Haig
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Moral

• Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • World

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Real
  • Age
  • Hair

• Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Real
  • Information
  • Fiction