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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People Me Airplane Black Boxes Like

I first came to Glasgow with no money and slept in a workman's hut on a building site.

Money Building First Hut Slept Came

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.

Doubt You Understand Out Up Share

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

Life Age Opportunity Football Me

During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful.

Finance Training Law Doing High Get

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man World Free Responsible Because

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

Art Artist Always Dialogue Artists

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Louis Kronenberger

Death Privacy Danger TV Before Blow

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

Black You White New Kind Meat

Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I'm doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' and I think it could be the worst thing I've ever done.

Think Picture Feel Doing Sometimes

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Douglas Coupland

Animal You Question Being Like

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

Christopher Buckley

Power Long House White Never Two

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Art King Stylish Tiger Dancing Came

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