Sherman Alexie Quotes

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

Sherman Alexie

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• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Work
  • Hope
  • United Nations

• I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Mission
  • Pilot

• 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.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• 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?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

  

  Dan Severson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Write
  • Serve
  • Skeletons

• I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Son
  • Husband

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.

  

  Kristy Swanson

• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • King

• 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.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Sleep

• If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

  

  Mario Andretti

• When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Black

• MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Money
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Debi Gliori
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Real
  • Respect
  • Personality

• I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Today
  • Political
  • Serious

• There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.

  

  Yaacov Agam
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Serious

• I look more Indian when I'm serious.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Serious
  • Looks