Sherman Alexie Quotes

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

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• I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Way
  • Know
  • Christian

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Lady
  • Fat

• To think of shadows is a serious thing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Shadows

• The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Words
  • Fear

• I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Want

• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Marriage
  • Married

• When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Late

• In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • Up
  • Nice

• I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Poverty

• If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Today

• Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Bubbles

• I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Age

• I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Interesting

• If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • World
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Respect
  • Forget
  • Authority

• I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Album
  • Promotion
  • Treadmill

• I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • City
  • Sex

• I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

  

  Sherman Alexie