Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

Svetlana Alexievich

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• If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

  

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• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

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• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

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• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

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• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

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• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

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• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

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• There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

  

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• The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

  

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• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

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• I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.

  

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• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

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• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

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• Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.

  

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  

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• I think everyone should go on my diet. It's called the Fuck It Diet. Basically what it is, is if I want to eat something but it has a lot of fat or carbs, I just take a moment, and I go within, and I say 'Fuck it' and I eat it. You have to do it 6 times a day. It works really well with the Fuck That Shit Exercise Program.

  

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• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

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• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

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• He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

  

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• Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

  

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• Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

  

  Svetlana Alexievich
  • Reality
  • Paper
  • Capture