Deborah Copaken Quotes

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

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• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Technology
  • iPhone

• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Long
  • Dance

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Point
  • Jazz

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Summer

• If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Character
  • Hand

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Hands
  • Dirty
  • Paint

• NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Service
  • Period
  • Sunday

• It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sexuality

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was 12. Because I know with all certainty in my mind, there is nothing wrong with being gay, and you know it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Why

• You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

  

  Mario Van Peebles
  • Baby

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

  

  Deborah Copaken
  • Time
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  • Metaphor