Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.Hilary Mantel
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle -
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
Veronica Roth -
The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman -
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos -
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Barry Unsworth -
Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
Veronica Franco
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
Laura Dern -
Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
Karan Mahajan -
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
Larry David -
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
E. M. Forster -
Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves.'We watch television,' Dave said.
Jack McDevitt
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Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?
Jack LaLanne -
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
Edward Heath -
No.
Alfred Rosenberg -
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins -
The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
Art Buchwald -
At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
Matt Taibbi
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We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Ariel Dorfman -
The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.
David Rosen -
I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
Rachel Bilson -
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.
Saint Augustine -
One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
Hilary Mantel