Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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I'm singing this song for you and your mum that's all,And it won't be long before everyone is gone.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.
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When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
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A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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I look at Canada like a second home.
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I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
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New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.'
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Generally I'm against regulation.
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But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
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People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
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What I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using the eye of the body or the eye of the soul, and incorporating what is thereby revealed in our conception of reality, we are doing something irrational and disobeying the leading of truth which as scientists we are pledged to serve.
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
