Mackenzie Phillips Quotes

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Understand

• I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Loss

• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • World
  • Child

• Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Opportunities
  • White

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Theatre

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Slavery
  • Saying

• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Moon

• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Distracted

• In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Interesting
  • Opinion
  • Awesome

• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  

  E. B. White
  • Need
  • Weather
  • Skin

• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Believe
  • Make A Difference

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
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