Sherman Alexie Quotes

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

Sherman Alexie

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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.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Star
  • Woman
  • Ship

• 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.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Gangster

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Religion
  • Person
  • Human

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I am a fan of wuxia.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Fan
  • Wuxia

• I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • House
  • Football
  • Fans

• 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?

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • God
  • Long
  • Soul

• I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Time

• L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Good
  • Home
  • Business

• If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Real
  • Song
  • Rap

• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Hand
  • Beginning

• He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Song
  • Stories
  • Wanted