M. J. Hyland Quotes

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

M. J. Hyland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 6, 1968

Topics

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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.

Andrea Riseborough

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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Jeffery Deaver

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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

John Perry Barlow

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I've got a soft spot for true individuals.

Amber Heard

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For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

Trisha Yearwood

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We are not facing China alone; we are facing China together with a lot of other people in the region.

Tsai Ing-wen

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I gathered as much reading material about Aung San Suu Kyi and about Burma as I could. And I read every article and every book she had written. I also had 200 hours of footage of her to watch. I tried to discover who were her heroes and where he desire and strength to pursue democracy in a non-violent fashion came from.

Michelle Yeoh

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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Lou Reed

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The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Jason Mraz

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The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Chen Guangcheng

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Audiences can be very judgmental.

Clive Owen

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I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

Brad Garrett

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