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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The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
