Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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I like to get real pretty.
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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
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I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.
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What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
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I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski resorts close to Las Vegas, up in Mount Charleston or Brian Head, so I grew up skiing and snowboarding.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
