Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.
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We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.
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It's better to die than to never really have lived.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.