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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

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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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Passings
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Asleep
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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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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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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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All art is exploitation.
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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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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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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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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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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
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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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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
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