Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.
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Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue their obligations to their exes in the form of alimony or child support; women are not required to continue their obligation to their exes in the form of homemaking or nurturing.
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I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
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If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
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I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.
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I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.
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We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
