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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• 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

• 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

• To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • Hope
  • Dad

• The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Amazing
  • Habit

• Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • World

• The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Game

• And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.

  

  Peter T. King
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

  

  Austin Clarke
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• 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