Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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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.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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'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.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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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?
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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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.
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I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
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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.
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I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
