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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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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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All art is exploitation.
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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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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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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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