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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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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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World
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Lifeboats
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