Sherman Alexie Quotes
I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.
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The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.
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I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have any memory of that but my mom has written evidence of it. I've always liked playing with words so when I was younger it had a lot more to do with rhyme and sounds.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
