Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
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If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
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MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
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Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
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The hard thing for me is to say no to people.
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Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.
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Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.
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We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
