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Joseph Bruchac Quotes

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality:
Birth: October 16, 1942

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Family Father Mother Side English

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Time College Night Believe Think

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Life Truth Sweet Truth Is Everything

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

Stephen Jay Gould

Innovation Training People Think May

My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.

Michel Foucault

Justice Control Within Historical

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

World Better Place Better Place Used

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

War Thought Nationalism Easy Going

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

Denise Morrison

Good Think You Embrace Disruption

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Chuck Palahniuk

She Romance Month Little Used Dozen

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

Today Water You More Band First

I think the problem people get into is they want to go into the gym and look at other people's workouts, or they want to lift what other people are lifting. I started out really small. I actually did a lot of research, and I learned all about working out. So take gradual steps.

People Research Small Think Problem

I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.

Time City Think House Hill Map

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Algernon Sidney

Best Democracy World Monarchy Bin

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