Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

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• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Positive

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Way
  • Suffering

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Family
  • Me
  • Dad

• All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

  

  J Mascis
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Play

• 3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Nature

• It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.

  

  Arun Jaitley
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Children
  • Why

• I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Decision

• It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Pretty

• If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Friendship

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Others

• Another point is that ultimately, as far as the budget is concerned, of major importance is who offers more money during the bidding that must be organized as a part of the privatization process. In this sense, we cannot discriminate against any market participants, not one of them, but this is not relevant at the moment, as the Government has decided to postpone the privatization of Bashneft.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Moments
  • Concerned
  • Importance

• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

  

  Hafez
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Remember
  • Remembered
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