Evan Osnos Quotes
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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No one person is an island.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
