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

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• 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

• In terms of my personal spirituality and everything else, it's ever-evolving. I have a desire to want more out of the universe. But the older I get, the further I get from any specifics about that.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Desire
  • Universe

• I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

  

  Georg Solti
  • Past

• People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

  

  Jenny Shipley
  • People
  • Mother
  • Career

• Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • People
  • Country
  • Freedom

• One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Done
  • Giving

• If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Quality
  • Decision

• 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