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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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 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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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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I'm not good at multi-tasking.
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I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
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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.
