Hilary Mantel Quotes

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

Hilary Mantel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Jimmy Carter

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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Joe Biden

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I think when you're a tall girl, you feel a little bit like an outcast. You have to go to the back of the photo. You're taller than all the boys. I know I felt more like an outsider. And then as I got older, I just got used to it. I got like, 'I don't date under 6 feet.' That's my policy.

Jessica Williams

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For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.

John C. Reilly

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No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

Stafford Cripps

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Robert Ballard

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When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Mary MacLane

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I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

Jason Blum

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I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

Josh Logan

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The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

Josh Schwartz

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I put my energy, voice, and spirit into fighting for anybody who wants to speak their voice. I don't care what the right wing, the left wing, or the chicken wing has to say.

Donna Brazile

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