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Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.

Hilary Mantel

Real, Night, People

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For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.

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Moving, People, Novelists

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To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

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Essentials, Looks, Kind

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[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

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Running, Country, Pretending

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Born: July 6, 1952
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