Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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We still have so much people don't understand.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
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For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
