Michelle Phillips Quotes
You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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I was madder than a Keebler elf getting demoted to fudge-packer.
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I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
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'Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.'
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A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything, that the goals I'd set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.
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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
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You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.