Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hilary Mantel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edan Lepucki 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. B. Smoove 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Campbell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Words are but the signs of ideas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vincent Cassel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahershala Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Babasaheb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Clarence Darrow 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ehud Olmert 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hilary Mantel