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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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?
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What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation...
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
