Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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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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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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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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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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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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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya
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Innovation is the calling card of the future.
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Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
