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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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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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 love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
