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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Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.
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When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.
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You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
