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Don't live up to your stereotypes.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
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What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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All art is exploitation.
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101)
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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