"journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public."

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Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.137, Penguin

Andrea Mitchell

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“Iâ€™m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you donâ€™t loose your self-consciousness, you canâ€™t really be present in a situation. For example, if youâ€™re at The Louvre, but youâ€™re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, youâ€™re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, youâ€™re always going to be like, â€œI was wearing those jeans I hatedâ€. And youâ€™re not going to remember anything else.”
“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”
“Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.”
“Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.”

Source : "Luke Pasqualino, Maimie McCoy and Executive Producer Adrian Hodges Talk BBC America’s THE MUSKETEERS, Blending Genres, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2014.
“Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.”

Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.
“Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “The Calder Game”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.
“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
“Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.”

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