Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of Ivy Compton-Burnett books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam Smith
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
Hal Sparks
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Sally Schneider
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
Zac Goldsmith
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Gary Cooper
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
Florence Henderson
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
Natalie Dormer
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
Yayoi Kusama
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
Sam Shepard
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In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
Danny Meyer
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Jazz was my first love.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Red-in-red repetitions never going Away,a little rusty, a little rouged, A little roughened and ruder, a crownThe eye could not escape, a red renown Blowing itself upon the tedious ear.
Wallace Stevens
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
Sam Shepard
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Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom
Vladimir Putin
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If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of Ivy Compton-Burnett books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.
Hilary Mantel