Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenLiveMenActionInteresting

I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.

Joel McHale

GreatCultureBehaviorPressureYou

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

John Dalberg-Acton

BestBookOthersContentSeek

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LifeControlMy LifeBeyondJust

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Sivamani

MusicNever Too LateLateNewNever

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

Robert Webb

BestMoralFuryLabourRemembers

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

Rupert Murdoch

WrongRightBeingSomethingGoing

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.

Mitch Leigh

SchoolWorldLookingReadingHigh

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

Jonny Wilkinson

LoveLiveMeGameRememberDream

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

Anthony Minghella

WorkWomenMenMeWritingWorld

If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives.

Marsha Blackburn

WalkHelpYouInnocentSeeGet

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

Kevin Kwan

PeopleMeYouKnowMeetWear

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

Kevin Systrom

PeopleWorldProblemSolutionYou

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