Joseph Bruchac Quotes

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

Joseph Bruchac

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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Myself
  • Quality

• Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

  

  Rachel True
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Mythology

• My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Responsibility
  • Hands

• Everyone is capable of everything.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Everyone
  • Capable

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Like
  • Jobs

• I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Men
  • Bear

• When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Way

• I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Think

• I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.

  

  Kajol
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Shopping

• We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Simple
  • Fight
  • Tax

• I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Character
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Nice

• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Know
  • Him

• As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Body

• Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Authority
  • Resist

• I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

  

  Kathryn Joosten
  • Cancer
  • Celebrity

• There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Long
  • Real
  • Character

• I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

  

  Joseph Bruchac