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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We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
