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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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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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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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
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Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
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I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I am who I am, a Southie.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
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I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But Margaret Thatcher carried it to extremes.
