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M. J. Hyland Quotes
English
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Author
June 6, 1968
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
M. J. Hyland
Age
Hands
Fake
Job
Eighteen
Paintings
Selling
Twenty-One
Any
Could
Get
Hands-On
Jobs
Worked
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
Life
Born
Mine
Fortune
Arbitrary
Capricious
Morons
Ruthless
Shabby
Been
Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
M. J. Hyland
Good
Me
Time
World
Gender
Label
Topics
About
Any
Boring
Born
Most
Poverty
Race
Spend
Stop
Talking
Things
Those
Trying
Wealth
Where
Whether
Worry
Writer
Writers
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
M. J. Hyland
Best
Think
Reading
Just
Non-Fiction
Plane
Ever
Finished
I Think
Read
Second
Some
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
M. J. Hyland
Trouble
Get
Because
Newspapers
Photographs
Sort
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
Succeed
Done
Things
Well
Asked
Been
Got
Lucky
Most
Wanted
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland
Never
Body
Well
Up
Block
Experienced
Temperature
Get
Goes
Going
Quite
Really
Writer
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
Me
Law
Rules
Some
Disciplines
Internal
Gave
Structure
I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
M. J. Hyland
Myself
Think
Live
Without
Edinburgh
Manhattan
Nationality
I Think
Might
As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
M. J. Hyland
Life
People
Half
Websites
Effects
Fatigue
Limbs
Mentioned
Multiple
Multiple Sclerosis
Neurological
Neurologist
Nurse
Treatment
Weakened
Working Life
Ms
Case
Cut
Had
Many
None
Single
Use
Working
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
Life
Mother
Father
Brother
Bills
Hospitals
Prison
Psychiatric
Rough
Troubled
Grew
Her
House
Lives
Living
Most
Nervous
Pay
Spent
Up
Who
I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
M. J. Hyland
Myself
Family
Go
Voice
Decades
Lessons
Even
First
Only
Person
Product
Spent
Two
University
Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.
M. J. Hyland
Me
Age
Brain
Lawyer
Assistant
Cadet
Editor
Film And TV
Journalist
Literary
Magazine
Spine
Ms
After
Also
Before
Both
City
Director
Film
Moved
Opposite
Seven
Then
TV
Worked
Years
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