Sherman Alexie Quotes
You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
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For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
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'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'
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In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
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Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.
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We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.
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I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.
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The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.
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I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's warranted, meeting their free speech with my own. But I will never forget that, without them, I'd have a much smaller platform on which to do it.
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I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.
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A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.
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I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
