Sherman Alexie Quotes
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
