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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Sherman Alexie

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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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Love
People
Indians
Dirty
Talk
Thing

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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.
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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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