Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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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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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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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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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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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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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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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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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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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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I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.
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