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.
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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.
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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.'
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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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!'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?
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Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.
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I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.
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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.
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I didn't deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn't deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don't deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.
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I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.
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I like to go out and have fun with my friends. I have family, too, so why can't I go out to clubs? I can, and I will.
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The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.
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Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.
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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.
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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
