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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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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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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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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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'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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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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Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
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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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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
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If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
