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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

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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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Everything
Teach
Chance
Tell
Kids
Stories
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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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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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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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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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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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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