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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.
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I was a heavy heart to carry My beloved was weighed down My arms around his neck My fingers laced to crown. I was a heavy heart to carry My feet dragged across ground And he took me to the river Where he slowly let me drown My love has concrete feet My love's an iron ball Wrapped around your ankles Over the waterfall
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
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The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
