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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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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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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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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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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I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
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The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
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You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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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.
