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Evan Osnos Quotes

For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.

Evan Osnos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Time Parents Ambition Book Who

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

Jim Harrison

Brain Binary Pretend Computer Like

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

Mother Remember Finding Mud Sting

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Day Dance School College Performance

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Mel Brooks

Love Writing Songwriter Songs I Love

There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.

Jason Statham

Confidence Faith Team Stunt Huge

I don't think I win most interviews. For instance, with Fidel Castro, I only spoke with him one minute and three seconds. But I think he won because I couldn't get anything from him. With the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, it happened exactly the same thing.

Jorge Ramos

Win Think Three President Anything

As kids, my mom would always let us help bake, and if we behaved, we got to lick the beaters clean.

Johnny Iuzzini

Mom Help Clean Always Us Kids

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu

Peace Friends You Want Talk Enemies

I believe in creative work.

Demian Bichir

Work Creative Believe I Believe

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Anne Tyler

I Am America Class Even Interested

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

Ashley Wagner

Age Young Competitive Young Age

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

Sherilyn Fenn

Life Work Trust Peace You Can Do It