Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
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And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.
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Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.
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I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
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In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.
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Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.
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In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
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When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.
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When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
