Evan Osnos Quotes
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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My father is my inspiration.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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The case raises important issues that affect the public's right to know and the government's ability to use the attorney-client privilege as a shield to deny access to documents that reflect its operations at the highest levels.
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I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.
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I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
