Copaken Quotes

#1. I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months

The Weeknd

#2. I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#3. Happiness is a moment.

Anna Carey

#4. If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

Jane Kenyon

#5. I think my mother ... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Caroline Kennedy

#6. Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.

Robin Hobb

#7. I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

Ornella Muti

#8. I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#9. I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#10. When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#11. Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#12. I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#13. My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#14. People don't stop at a size 12. I feel like there's a big thing missing where you can't dress to your mood above a certain number.

Melissa McCarthy

#15. When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#16. This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#17. I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Deborah Copaken

#18. Does it hurt?"
He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. "Only when I laugh."
"I'll try not to be funny."
"Epic fail, beautiful.

Rachel Caine

#19. I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#20. When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.

Hugh Laurie

#21. Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Deborah Copaken Kogan