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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At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.
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The law, notably tort law and the law of property based on the principle of exclusion, is historically prior to any proto-statal authority.
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The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
