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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father Child City Back Born Big

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Work Nature Mother Environmental Up

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

Villain Butt Always Used Show Some

For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate & Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick.

Friend Best School Best Friend Long

I listen to a lot of what my sister Rhea says. I give her a lot of credit for my stuff. When people give me credit for my fashion choices, it's my sister who creates them. This whole fashionable avatar has been created by her. It's her brainchild. It's not me at all. Rhea really takes care of me, though I am older than her.

I Am People Me Sister Fashion Care

Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.'

Time Brother Go Rock Little Every

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

Music Want Leave Mark Indelible

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Laugh Ignore You Insult Top Off

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Life Heart New York Parents Writing

When I become president, it will be about helping the 100 percent.

Will Become President Percent About

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

Me Writing Start Think You Write

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

Deborah Eisenberg

Woman Happen Well Manhattan Who Sum

Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.

You Possible Noise Break Bones Much

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