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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

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

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Reality Capture Always Magnet

We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.

Universe Now Places Minds Able Our

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Live Poverty More Neighborhoods Than

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

Nature Poetry Tools Unique Own Form

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

Music Me Find Way Band Need

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

I Can Try Always Stage Up Being

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Live Job People Country Go Eat

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Intention Frame Every Scene

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

Ride Feet Think Interesting You Out

Hot Lips changed a lot in eleven years. Initially, Margaret Houlihan behaved as though a man were the only thing that could complete her life, and she didn't see what richness her life contained. She gained a lot of self-esteem through the years, and she came to realize that what she did, what she offered, was valuable.

Life Man Lips Hot She See

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

Character Hope Foundation Budget

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

Christian More Movement Than Any

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

Bad Party Belonging See Opposition

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