Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • She
  • Yourself

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • World
  • Military
  • Strength

• In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Children
  • Family

• John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • May
  • Political
  • Earth

• One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Money
  • History
  • Opportunity

• I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Effects

• Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Space

• The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Success
  • Dream
  • Small

• This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Electronic
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Market-making

• Without education, confidence does not come.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Doe

• Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Career

• The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  

  T. H. White
  • Learning
  • Sad

• Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Reality
  • Stop

• I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

  

  Inder Kumar Gujral

• I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Desire
  • Obsession
  • Menagerie

• I've always just felt like an outsider. I've always been made fun of in school ever since kindergarten. For me, when I started singing, that's when I started making "friends,". That's when people started taking an interest in me. That was the thing that made me likable, I guess. Maybe even lovable! I think that's really why I'm so hellbent on doing this as a career is because those are the moments where I felt at my most confident.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Religion

• A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Differences
  • Personal

• Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Stories
  • Lying