Sherman Alexie Quotes
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.Sherman Alexie
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
Dan Quisenberry -
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume -
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
Vijay Mallya -
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
Barry Hannah -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
Sam Shepard -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
Irving Kirsch -
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull -
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Indra Devi
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
D. A. Pennebaker -
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
Talcott Parsons -
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams -
Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
Walt Disney -
Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
Sam Harris -
One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
Leslie Jamison
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I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.
Blake Judd -
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
Andrew Wiles -
What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.
Sabina Murray -
I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.
Jerry Coleman -
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.
Geoffrey K. Pullum -
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
Sherman Alexie