Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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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.
Marat Safin -
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 -
'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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Ville Valo HIM -
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 -
An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
Abraham Cowley -
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
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 -
…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.
Anthony Burgess
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
Alexander Alekhine -
So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
Jane Goodall -
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 -
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Alfred Marshall -
The public is a part of my real life.
Placido Domingo -
Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.
Brad Schneider
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I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
Jean-Marie Messier -
Every time we meet it feels like I’m going away on a trip somewhere
Woo Ji-ho Block B -
The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
Kirby Larson -
A veces hallo tan grande a la miseria que temo necesitar de ella.
Antonio Porchia -
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.
John Ruskin -
The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
Hilary Mantel