Evan Osnos Quotes
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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I got sober, and I got happy again.
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
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When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.
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Home-made smoothies are a great way of satisfying a sweet tooth. Adding in things like frozen banana will make it taste super sweet and creamy.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
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I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families - our ancestors - are our identities. Biology is destiny.
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There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.
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Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
