Sherman Alexie Quotes
Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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New York is my favorite city.
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Today, while celebrating the jihad victory, we once again invite those who have sided with aliens because of seduction against their nation, to give up sedition and evil and join peaceful life.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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'Insidious 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where we left off at the end of the first film. And whereas the first movie is a twist on the haunted house genre, the second movie is a twist on the classic domestic thriller.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
