Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes

What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

Svetlana Alexievich

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• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Day
  • Player
  • Better

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Invest
  • Shoe
  • Trendy

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Always
  • Been
  • Bit

• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Process
  • Songs

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • You
  • Need

• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • Art
  • Friendship

• Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to 'penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,' as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.

  

  John Barth
  • Women
  • Fear

• No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • School

• We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• I know people who have literally quit their jobs to spend more time with their children, and I go, 'Wow,' my dad used to go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd come back at 7:30 and we'd kind of see him walk in and then he'd go upstairs and suddenly he'd be in a T-shirt and grumpy. There wasn't much in the way of conversation that went on.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

  

  Svetlana Alexievich
  • Time
  • History
  • Earth