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Applauding politicians for building a hospital, a school or a road with citizens' money is the same as applauding an ATM because it paid you your money.

— Svetlana Bojković

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The role of every artist is to fight for truth and justice. It is an ethical question, a knowledge that every artist should possess.

Interview (2021)

After our departure, we are all forgotten.

Life should be lived and loved, whatever it brings. It requires effort until it becomes part of your nature. You must not be angry with life, because life is a gift that should be respected, cherished, improved and fought to be beautiful and honorable!

Interview (2020)

We are becoming a society in which vulgarity is promoted as a way of communication, and this is unhealthy and dangerous. Young people are leaving the country because society has become immoral, vulgar in mutual communications.

Interview (2019)

The fact is that Serbia has a beautiful nature, and that in politics it is considered that economic growth is more important than its preservation. As a result, we are witnessing the continued devastation of natural resources, which affects our health and our lives.

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