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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
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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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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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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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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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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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