Evan Osnos Quotes

Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.

Evan Osnos

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WalkPeopleRoadWalkingStrangers

As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge myself. I read difficult books like James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' but I didn't really understand it, and no one was going to call me on it because I was 16.

Jesse Andrews

MyselfChallengeMeUnderstandTouch

My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house.

Jeffrey Wright

JobSwimmingDeepHousePoolInside

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

Maud Adams

FilmGetOnlyExceptionalSweden

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorldSillyYouPlaceNewChicago

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

MusicSongHorseNeverSingFolk

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

Jason Bateman

ProductionCostumeExcitingComposers

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

Janis Ian

HomeMeTelevisionThreeNeverRoom

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

Piper Perabo

LoveLove IsYouWellConfusing

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Princess Diana

LifeHappinessPeopleMeSociety

A 'no flex zone' is an area where a lot of people can be themselves, live their life, get their money.

Swae Lee

LifeLiveMoneyPeopleGetZone

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Scott McClellan

HouseWhiteRoomWhite HousePress

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

Thomas Jane

LoveRespectGreatStillComics

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