Evan Osnos Quotes
As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.
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Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
