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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Ideas Socialism Others Heroes

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Happy Parents Me Singing Lawyer

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

John George Nicolay

Children Experience Death Sister Old

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.

Andrew Zuckerman

Experience Book Someone Long Wall

I love food, but if I find a restaurant I like in a new city, I can eat every meal there, and sometimes I do... and even sometimes the same dish.

Love Food City Restaurant Find New

Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It's just something that's happening, and we have to decide what we feel about it.

Steven Soderbergh

Me Weather Feel Upset Netflix Just

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Poetry Space You Look Within Being

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

Night Planet Big Watch Original Fan

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

Singing Literally Unreal

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

Martin O'Malley

You Kind Will Real Corner Painted

I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny.

To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

Win You Lucky Little Championship

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Jonas Armstrong

Path Start Thought Acting Down Go

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