Hilary Mantel Quotes

You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

Hilary Mantel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HeartDarknessChildControlReading

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

John Cho

LifeSonCultureParentsThought

The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.

John Motson

FootballSupportCityPowerfulNew

I still have a temper, I suppose.

John Malkovich

TemperStillSuppose

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

Matt Long

HateThinkActorWhat IfWouldHad

Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash.

Triple H

WorkStoryYouKnowTrashWrestling

We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also started funding other intelligence services in order to use them as proxies. We also know that some of these collaborations were kept off the record; supposedly, there is no paper trail.

Trevor Paglen

IntelligenceTrailKnowUpStarted

I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.

Martin Villeneuve

ImpossibleKnowFilmAbleMadeHow

In the battle of substance over flash, few to none of the Al Jazeera correspondents are recognizable to U.S. audiences. Many have foreign names and accents; none have best-selling books atop the list or can be heard pounding their shoes on the nightly infotainment podium.

Michael Paterniti

ShoesBattleOverNamesAccents

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Jason Bateman

FaceFatEvolveBigTendency

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

Jason Bateman

TiredFriendsYouReadyNeverVice

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

Janis Ian

PeopleBetterUncomfortableWrite

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

Colm Wilkinson

MusicChildhoodMomViolinPiano

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