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 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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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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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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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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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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Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
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If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.
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Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
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Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing wrong with that!
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It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
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'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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Negativity is like a blood clot, and actively disengaged employees sometimes clot together in groups that support and reinforce their beliefs.
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All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
