Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God and the energy presence of God, and that is what I can tap into when I tune in and slow down.
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I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.
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I take Sudafed to combat my congestion, so I always carry some with me because I like to be prepared and make sure I'm ready whenever symptoms strike. It's also a really good idea to figure out what your triggers are.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
