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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• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

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

  

  Walter Salles
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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.

  

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

  

  Kat Graham
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• What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

  

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

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  

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

  

  Pat Robertson
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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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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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.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
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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.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
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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.

  

  Barry McGee
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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.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Up
  • Things
  • Process

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

  

  Adam Driver
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  • Brain
  • Feel

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

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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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.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Good
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• Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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  • Think
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• The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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• There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Words
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• The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Song

• It's always exciting for me to sit down at the piano, and every time I do, something new happens, something surprises me, or I surprise myself. I played Poinciana last night and it was like a new song. That's the reason there's no such thing as old music. The wonderful thing about music is that it's ageless.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Music
  • Piano
  • Ageless

• 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