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'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.
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We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
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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.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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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.
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I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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.
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There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
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Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.
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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
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Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.
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I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.
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I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.
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If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
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I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.
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I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor.
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When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
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I like actors - I used to be one.
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My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.
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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.
