Sherman Alexie Quotes
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
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I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I'd try and sing like Howlin' Wolf. It was like a bark; there was melody to it - but I would go off a bit and I wouldn't stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn't tell you about harmonies. I couldn't tell about what notes I'm singing because nobody taught me to sing.
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Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
