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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Love Death Two Things About

I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight.

Fight Growing Up Army Growing Want

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Wise Horror Audience Modern Our Gag

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

College End Year Mine Junior Worked

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

Intelligence Talent Believe Resources

My abiding theme is separations.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Myself Experience College Me Brain

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

Time Picture Someone Paid Get Every

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

Chris Diamantopoulos

Love Bond Happen Spy Anything Like

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Mirror Never Self-Pity Useful Like

You're competing against other guys because ultimately there's only one starter, and all of us want to be that guy at some point. That's the way I approach it. Control what I can control and just be the best I can be each day.

Best Day Control You I Can Want

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

People Race Colour Whatever Abuse

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

People Writing Graduation Year Early

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