Sherman Alexie Quotes
I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
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Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.
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It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.
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Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.
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Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
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There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence
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Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
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What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
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And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
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I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.
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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.
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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
