Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes
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.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'
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The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.
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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.
