Sherman Alexie Quotes
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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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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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
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There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
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Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
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I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.
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Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
