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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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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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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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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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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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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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