Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.
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China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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I don't want to be a celebrity.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."
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Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
