Sherman Alexie Quotes

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

Sherman Alexie

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• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Sounds

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Small
  • Camera
  • Small Things

• Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Know
  • Starting

• 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Great
  • Book
  • War

• Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Time
  • Desert

• I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'

  

  Jason Alexander

• Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Wish
  • Jesus
  • Christmas

• We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Real
  • Serious
  • Teenager

• If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Done

• With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Character
  • Fun

• If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Help

• It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Up
  • Game
  • Beautiful

• My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

  

  David Bailey
  • Friends

• Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People
  • Music

• Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Brain

• Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • Good
  • Value
  • Evil

• All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Imagination