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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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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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Song
Firsts
Come
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Construct
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Tape

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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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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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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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When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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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'm a poet who can whine in meter
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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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 it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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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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