Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
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The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
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I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
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As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
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Writing is a lonely business.
