Sherman Alexie Quotes

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

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• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

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• There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

  

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• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

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• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

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• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

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• At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

  

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• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  

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• Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.

  

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• Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.

  

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• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

  

  Ian Rankin
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• The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

  

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• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

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• Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

  

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• I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.

  

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• As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

  

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• I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

  

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• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

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• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  

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• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  

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• We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

  

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• There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Pain