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Evan Osnos Quotes

As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 24, 1976

Topics

Student Sometimes Movies China Made

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Sometimes Try Fiction Read Many Too

I would not have an event before the majors. I would build them up. It very rarely happens that a player plays the week before, wins the event, and then goes on to win the slam.

Win Week Build Up Event Happens

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

Growth Challenge Will Become Economy

When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

Home School Song High School Think

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

Truth Soul Empathy King Writing You

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Fear Past Death Present Tyranny

Ben Karlin is a friend of mine and was a writer on 'The Daily Show.' He's just put out a book and asked a bunch of writers from various disciplines to contribute. It was called 'Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me,' and of course I agreed, and then I actually had to sit down and write it. God, writing fiction is terrifying.

Friend Women Daily God Me Writing

The more I'm dedicated to this work, the more I'm able to satisfy my deep need to create. And that's a pretty good thing. If you take half-decent care of yourself, that can propel you on into productive later years.

Work Good Yourself Deep Care You

In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.

Mitchel Resnick

Life Creative Me I Can Nice Office

A falcon is the perfect hunter.

Jean Craighead George

Perfect Hunter Falcon

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

Life Celebrate Wedding Important

In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.

Life Love Daily Daily Life People

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