Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Jerry Hall

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In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

Andrew Shaffer

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You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

John Oliver

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Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

John Kasich

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'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I got called Scarface at school.

Trudie Styler

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In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

Robyn Davidson

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No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

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Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

Lorene Scafaria

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I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry.

Jon Favreau

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I'm so tired of talking about Warren Buffett.

Chris Christie

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What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Bryan Cranston

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