Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.Hilary Mantel
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
Ted Cruz -
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Beck -
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
Zara Larsson -
I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
Ted Cruz -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
Kate Thompson
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
Lance Gross -
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
Rainbow Rowell -
I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
Gary Johnson -
I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
Quentin Blake -
But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
Sally Schneider
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
Paloma Faith -
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
Desmond Tutu -
I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
Ben Schnetzer -
We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
Bob Ehrlich -
I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
Ellen McLaughlin -
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
Amity Gaige -
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
Laura Esquivel -
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
James Levine -
I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
Jerry Della Femina -
[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.
Hilary Mantel