Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.
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Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.
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I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
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