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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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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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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If there's beer flying at us, it's all good, brother. We started playing tiny redneck bars up in northern Canada where there's tons of beer flying and wire cage protecting the band and all sorts of stuff. So we're down with the party.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
