Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But Margaret Thatcher carried it to extremes.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.
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So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.
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I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But Margaret Thatcher carried it to extremes.
