Sherman Alexie Quotes
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I am a fan of wuxia.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?
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Love is the law, love under will.
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I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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Listen up, here’s our song, for the young, the lost, and the underdogs. We’re taking over. We get it right and we get it wrong. But we got used to staying strong. We’re taking over. We’re taking over now, yeah!
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
