Sherman Alexie Quotes
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
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When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.
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I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.
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I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
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I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.
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At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.
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When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
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I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.
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I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.
