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.

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• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• 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.'

  

  Tara Reid
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• 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.

  

  Jack Nance
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• David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

  

  Rachel Perry
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• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
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• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
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• 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.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• 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.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
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• 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.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
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• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• 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.

  

  Majora Carter
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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• 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.

  

  Dan Ariely
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• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
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• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

  

  Kurt Russell
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• There's a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That's why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually managed to come back off the strike with an episode that claimed that the CW wasn't able to get an episode of Supernatural done fast enough. So the prelude to 'Ghostfacers!' is the Ghostfacers going, 'Yeah, those fat-cat writers, we've got a show that's better than that bullshit anyway.' I mean, that's pretty cool in the world of metanarrative, which is, I have to admit, one of my abiding passions.

  

  Ben Edlund
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• I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
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• Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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• 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.

  

  M. J. Hyland
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