Michelle Phillips Quotes
The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
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I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.
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I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.
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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.
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I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
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I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.
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I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.
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As the family goes, so go the children.
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In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores are lined with shelves filled with self-help books. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media outlets turn our focus inwards, allowing us to fall more and more in love with ourselves, our thoughts, our opinions, our voices.
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I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
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I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
