Evan Osnos Quotes
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
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We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.
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I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.
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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
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I think people's interpretation of a body slam is different than the techniques.
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I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.
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I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.
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Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.
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My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering.
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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The moment I escaped to China, I didn't have any money; I only had one address in my hand of some long-distance Chinese relatives. I didn't know China was that big. I thought I can find their home very easily, and I would come back one week later. But then I found out the address was a 10-hour drive away.
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All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
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In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.
