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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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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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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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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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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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