Michelle Phillips Quotes
I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
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I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.
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I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.
