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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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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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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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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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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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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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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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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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