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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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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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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I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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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.
