Sherman Alexie Quotes
it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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Businesses across the country are raising their prices in order to compensate for their added costs due to Obama's health care plan. If they aren't raising prices, they're cutting jobs as a result of the added cost, both of which hurt our economy.
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My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
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You're as good as the people you're with.
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I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.
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I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.
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For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .
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In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
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I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
