Sherman Alexie Quotes

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

Sherman Alexie

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

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• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

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• I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

  

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• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

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• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

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• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

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• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

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• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

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• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

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• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  

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• I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

  

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• The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.

  

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• I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

  

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• People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

  

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• What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

  

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• I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.

  

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• Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Tough