Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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I think it's really important to love yourself. Because I feel like a lot of the time, especially right now, I've noticed that insecurity is something that's so common that it's not glorified but like romanticized. And it shouldn't be because at the end of the day you have to live with yourself and be happy with who you are. If not, then you're not going to be a happy individual and whatever people say will get to you. So you have to know who you are and like it that way.
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So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.
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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
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We, and the universe we live in, produce and operate in a sea of natural and unnatural electrical and magnetic fields. The earth, for example, pulses at about 10 Hz, like a small engine. Our bodies, as you may remember from chapter 1, are really electromagnetic machines. We simply can't move a muscle or produce a thought without an electrical impulse - and wherever there is electricity, a magnetic field is also produced, which is why we link the two together into one word: electromagnetic.
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
