"For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ..."

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Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#Spiritual Quotes #Father Quotes #Russia Quotes

“When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.”
“I'm drunk. Correct. What the ***** is it to you?”
“Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.”
“I can hear people smile.”
“In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.”
“... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones”
“I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.”

Source : "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.
“I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.”

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