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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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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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.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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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.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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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.
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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.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
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You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.
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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.
