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Svetlana 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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality:
Birth: May 31, 1948

Topics

History Time Earth Invisible Missing

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Reading Enough Early Missed Umpire

Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.

Life Live Justice American My Life

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Win Think Honor Award You Rebel

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Sophie Swetchine

Strength Alone Conflict Weakness

Deadpool was intended, as Cable was, to be tied into Wolverine's history.

History Wolverine Tied Cable

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Society Want Going Been Really Dole

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Society Revolution Moral Abandonment

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

Love Quality Together Yourself View

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Passion Greatness Unity Find Falling

I always liked the idea in 'Potter' that you don't choose the wand, the wand chooses you, and that relics decide when you're ready to handle them. I'm a cinephile first and a filmmaker second, and it's all swimming in the subconscious.

Scott Derrickson

Swimming You Choose Ready First

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.

Work Wife School Baseball Smart Law

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Red Tears Him Broke Met

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