Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

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• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Music
  • Energy

• Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • You
  • Need
  • Worst

• It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Country
  • Family
  • Movies

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Hair

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.

  

  Gary Player
  • Up
  • Night
  • Friend

• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  

  Christopher Lasch

• You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Kids

• My heart was beating out of my chest.

  

  Swoosie Kurtz
  • Heart
  • Beating
  • Chest

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

  

  William Weld
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Heart
  • Scales
  • Organs