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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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White Americans have a short memory.
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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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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
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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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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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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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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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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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