Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Hilary Mantel

• Imagination
• Privilege
• Procrastination
• Subconscious
• Delay

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• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

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• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

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• We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

  

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• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

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• It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

  

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• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

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• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

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• Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

  

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• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

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• Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

  

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• 'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.

  

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• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

  

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• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)

  

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• I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

  

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• Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.

  

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• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  

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• At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

  

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• When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

  

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• I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

  

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• Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Imagination
  • Privilege
  • Procrastination