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The ordinary can be like medicine.

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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 wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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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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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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One play can change your momentum forever.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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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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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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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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I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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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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