Sherman Alexie Quotes
I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.
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Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
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Creativity for me is religious.
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
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You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.
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After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
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I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
