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Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Circle
Revenge
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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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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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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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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.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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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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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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All I owe the world is my art.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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One play can change your momentum forever.
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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 think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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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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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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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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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.
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