Sherman Alexie Quotes

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Sherman Alexie

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• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Greatest
  • Disaster
  • Consequences

• When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Band
  • Moment
  • Everyone

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• 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.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• 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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• 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.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • You
  • Simple
  • Look

• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

  Maluma
  • Industry
  • Idols
  • Ricky

• When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Feel
  • Marine

• Imagination needs to be fed.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Imagination
  • Needs
  • Fed

• Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Me
  • Feels
  • Natural

• I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Thought
  • Felt
  • Through

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• 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.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • America
  • Police

• I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Past
  • Something

• I never had a long-term plan.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Long
  • Never
  • Plan

• No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.

  

  Andrew Loomis
  • Knowledge
  • Talent
  • Well

• This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

  

  Herbert Spencer

• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Writing

• I'm not in a position to go back into public service.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Service
  • Public Service

• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Feelings
  • Successful
  • Disappointing