Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove.I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove.It took me too long to realize that I don't take good picturesCuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
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Mel H. Buffalo, an advisor to the Samson Cree band in Hobbema, Alberta, reported that 'every Indian person I've spoken to who attended these schools has a story of mental, physical or sexual abuse to relate.'
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I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
