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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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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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Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
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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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What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.
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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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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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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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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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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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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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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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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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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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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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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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