Sherman Alexie Quotes
The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Isolationism is over.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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I've been racketeered on.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
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War is the business of barbarians.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
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Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
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Some suppose these parks to have been reminiscences of a tradition of Eden: at any rate a place of the sort was called a paradise. And so, by adopting the word, Christ appears to indicate that at death we pass, as it were, into the wondrous garden that surrounds the Father’s house, but not into the house itself.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.
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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.