Hilary Mantel Quotes

Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.

Hilary Mantel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 6, 1952

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Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

John Curran

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I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

Robert Hunter

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If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.

Jeff Lemire

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It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.

Amy Jackson

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While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

John Podhoretz

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I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.

John Rampton

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Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

Tom King

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I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

Jordin Sparks

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I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

Christopher Lloyd

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India has never played politics with national security.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

Artie Lange

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We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.

Winston Marshall

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