Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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My private life stays private.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
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Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!
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For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?
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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.
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When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
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I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'
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You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
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First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
