Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleWritingInternetYouFind

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

Jenny Zhang

GreatTimePeopleWantAnything

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

Steven Levitan

WorkHard WorkHonestyChildrenWife

Filming is long - you get very tired, and your skin breaks out and you get lumps and bumps. It's easier if you're allowed to have bags under your eyes.

Shirley Henderson

EyesTiredLongYouSkinOut

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

Roger Rees

YouTrueTakeAwayShakespeareLot

There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.

Ronen Bergman

HistoryJailPossibleOldVeil

I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.

Dee Rees

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There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

Claire Messud

TimeThinkYouNowRightOut

I actually didn't have a quincenera, but I did get to take part in one for my cousin. I've just never really been into parties.

Cierra Ramirez

NeverTakeGetBeenJustDid

When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.

Alice Ripley

GoodTimeMeHaving A Good TimeMeet

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

Paul Watson

MyselfI AmTryingLookConservative

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

Tim Roth

ThroughAnythingScrewedElseFalls

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

Lindsey Buckingham

HistoryYouWantMeanRepeatReturn

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