Sherman Alexie Quotes
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
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And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
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All I owe the world is my art.
