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.

  

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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.

  

  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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

  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
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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
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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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• 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.

  

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

  

  Quincy Jones
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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.

  

  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
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• The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to keep them alive.

  

  David Mixner
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• I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. “I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
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  • Result
  • Vegetarian

• 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