M. J. Hyland Quotes
I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
Quotes to Explore
-
I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
-
It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
-
But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
-
David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
-
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
-
I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
-
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
-
What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
-
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
-
In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
-
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
-
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
-
To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
-
I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
-
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
-
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
-
When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
-
We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
-
I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.
-
A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
-
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-
I have to say, not a day goes by when I don't think fondly about 'Deadwood' and miss things about it.
-
I grew up right in Santa Cruz, right across the bay from Monterey. I would go to Monterey all the time.
-
I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
