Sherman Alexie Quotes
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I believe that all men and women will be saved.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.
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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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I'll keep going till my face falls off.
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I normally eat everything under the sun, but once a year, for a whole month, I eat nothing but fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean fish, and I feel great!
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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
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There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far from you, a language far from you, but suddenly you're there. You're that person, seeing with that person's eyes. I think that's really tremendous. Even things like cinema or more traditional history can't quite do that.
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I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.
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I am preppy, geek-chic with a touch of Bozo the Clown with a touch of 'Showgirls.' Sometimes, I look at myself and think I should put on a red nose, white face and maybe entertain some kids.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
