Hilary Mantel Quotes

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

Hilary Mantel

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Author Biography

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

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The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

Jim Costa

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I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

Jerrod Carmichael

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Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

Mauricio Macri

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I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'

Matt Roper

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I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.

Michael Bennet

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Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Steve Carell

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I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Kanaly

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For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

Tomi Adeyemi

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Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

Mignon McLaughlin

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What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Liza Minnelli

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I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

Jason Reitman

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I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

Donald Trump

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