Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker -
My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
OMI -
I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
Uzo Aduba -
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth -
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A. S. Byatt -
I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
Carlene Carter
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I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
Vijay -
Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
Calvin Harris -
'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
Ilan Stavans -
I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
Ozwald Boateng -
There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
Andy Rooney -
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!
Cynthia Nixon -
I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
Donald Miller -
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Aristotle -
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
Ernest Hemingway -
And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
Kurt Loder -
Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
Chris Jericho
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde -
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
Leonard Susskind -
If it's fiction, then it better be true.
Sherman Alexie