Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

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Hilary Mantel

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• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • High
  • Courage
  • Voice

• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Happy

• I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Enough
  • Understand

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• You breathe better when you're rich.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Breathe

• I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Political

• It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.

  

  Dominic West
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I ultimately do still feel like an outsider, and I do feel, actually, I'm more in the world of music because of how much I participate with musicians - in all aspects, not just clothes.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • World
  • Music

• The only thing that being killed off on 'Graceland' helped me with on 'Game of Thrones' is that it made me available to actually do the job.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Job
  • Game

• I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Up
  • Small
  • Growing

• I'm proud to say that I'm in advertising.

  

  David Droga
  • Proud

• This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'

  

  Gotye
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Song

• And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

  

  James Payn
  • Good
  • Respect

• When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

  

  Allen Klein
  • People
  • Up

• Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• I love what I do and I love the fans.

  

  George Eads

• The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

  

  George Combe
  • Attention
  • Rest
  • Air

• Every aspect of our lives are now connected: health, travel, sports, gaming, our homes, our cars - everything.

  

  Gary Shapiro
  • Lives
  • Aspect
  • Connected

• Some things get clearer as you look back on them.

  

  John Lanchester

• Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

  

  David Hockney

• But the Duke of Clermont was smiling and cheerful, and he’d thrown it out there as if it were merely one more fact to be recounted. The weather is lovely. The streets are paved with cobblestone. Your tits are magnificent.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Fact
  • Streets
  • Weather

• In the last four months, it's happened three times, just out of the blue, so we have a feeling the retail market is ready to be downtown. The retailers are the ones calling.

  

  John Bacon
  • Feeling
  • Ready
  • Happened

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  Hilary Mantel
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