Sherman Alexie Quotes
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
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Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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I'm not a breakfast eater.
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But it's continued on and it's definitely been the longest run of low scores I've had to endure in my international career.
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It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
