M. J. Hyland Quotes
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
