Etgar Keret Quotes
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Hamlet got a gun now.
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If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
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The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
