Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

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• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Me
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• To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
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• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Philosophy
  • Simplicity
  • Plus

• Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Time
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Pink
  • Lips
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• If it's boring, then it's tiring.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Boring
  • Then
  • Tiring

• One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Where

• I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
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• The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Reading

• Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.

  

  Margaret Fuller
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• It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.

  

  Arun Jaitley
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • May

• I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.

  

  John Rocha
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Energy

• I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.

  

  Carolyn Jones
  • Books
  • Library
  • Reader

• But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Stories