Sherman Alexie Quotes
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.
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I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
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I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
