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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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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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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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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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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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
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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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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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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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Education is very important to me.
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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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Some of the ideas I try to get across to the people who work for me are the following:
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I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
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When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.
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I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.
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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.
