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Sherman Alexie Quotes

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Roots Book Weird Independent Wanted

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Respect Reality Unions Line Pay Out

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Passion Commitment Fade More Still

It's kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you're already with.

Process Weird You Kind Company

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

Music Experience People Place Want

I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn't just focus on their impairment.

Love Focus Talking Acting Person

He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don't think he was a good president, but I'll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.

Good Character Think You Actor Tell

If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.

Goals Yourself You Will Score Get

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

Dominic Chianese

Life People Villain Uncle Want Him

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

Good Me Think Know Sound Write

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Feel Because Writer Reluctant Part

A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings of people, some I know and some I don't. We ask what is working and what isn't. So it's not as if I'm shutting out input.

People Me Key Process Know Test

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

Brain Recovery Through Hardest Been

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