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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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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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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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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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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We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
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It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
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I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.
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However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
