Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've realized I've become a bit reactive to each film I do. After 'The Road,' I was desperate to do something that had color and warmth to it and a stronger sense of community.

John Hillcoat

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I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

Stephen Colbert

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My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

Tom Ellis

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That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Mary Badham

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I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

Michele Bachmann

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I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.

Michelle Fairley

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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

Jason Reitman

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My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

Diego Luna

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I love monsters.

China Mieville

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No face is 'correct,' but when you figure out how to emphasize and celebrate your own features with makeup, it will show.

Aquaria

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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Allan Sloan

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Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

Maria Sharapova

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