Michelle Phillips Quotes
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
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I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.
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One of the least enjoyable things for me to do is to talk about myself.
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There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
