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.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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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.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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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.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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'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.
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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.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
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'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
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I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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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.
