Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes

#1. 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

#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. I need a template of a template

Carrie Brownstein

#4. The fires of hell are not hot enough for a man - or woman! - who would hurt his children.

Joe Hill

#5. Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

John Tinker

#6. It wants, but does not demand. It asks, but doesn't take. It gives, and pleads for more. It is filled with desire, but also curiosity, and it teaches me that a kiss should come gift wrapped, not stripped naked

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

Laura Marling

#8. It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Joshua Reynolds

#9. I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

Marisa Miller

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

David Chang

#17. 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

#18. Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*

Connor Franta

#19. Within the book and volume of thy brain ...

William Shakespeare

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

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#21. Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.

Peter Guber

#23. Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

~pg 8

Alice Sebold

#24. Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ...

Phyllis Bottome

#25. 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

#26. 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