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Hilary Mantel Quotes

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Desk Go Move Notebooks Arrive

In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

God Science Light Experience Data

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

Change Government Lady Create Say

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

Guitar Want Never Kid Up Noise

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Money People Black Seeing White

If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.

Television News Fox Turn Going

The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. There are realistic elements that people obviously enjoy, but they don't necessarily want to relive the trials and tribulations of their average work day.

Work Day People Enjoy Dark Want

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Life Think Reality Doing You Want

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Sitting Actor Moody Singer Being

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Science Things Only Applied Sciences

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Great Me Compliment Matter Pretty

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

Feel Drama Serious My Own Always

When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

Bridget Moynahan

Marriage Girl Believe Thought Doing

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