Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes
On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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Tarzan was an interested spectator. His desire to kill burned fiercely in his wild breast, but his desire to learn was even greater. He would follow this savage creature for a while and know from whence he came. He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.
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The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.
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I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.
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Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
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I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.
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On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
