Sherman Alexie Quotes

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

Sherman Alexie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1966

Topics

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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Jim Ramstad

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In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.

John Berger

PaintingDrawingBecomeMusclePoint

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

Jenifer Lewis

WorkMeThinkSometimesTakeLot

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

Simon Rattle

FootballPeopleYouTrainPlay

I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.

Russell Tovey

I AmPeopleCoolThinkLooksColour

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Mary Karr

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It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.

Michael Spence

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Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure.

Luke Roberts

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Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

Loretta Lynch

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I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Arundhati Roy

SimpleIdeasThinkDietPolitical

Zika has arrived on our shores, and the number of local infections is continuing to grow. Thankfully, companies like SpringStar are doing incredible work developing innovative tools to stop the spread of Zika. It's more important than ever that Congress provide the resources to deploy these technologies to the communities who need them.

Suzan DelBene

WorkGrowToolsDoingStopCongress

I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

Paula Pell

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