Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.
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One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.
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One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
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It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.
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I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.
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I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.
Charles B. Rangel
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If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
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I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.
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Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.
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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.
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She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?
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I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
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Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
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History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.