Etgar Keret Quotes
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.Etgar Keret
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
Sam Hunt -
If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
Taylor Swift -
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham -
There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
Sam Trammell -
I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
Walt Handelsman -
Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
Garth Brooks
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr -
Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
Harland Williams -
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Irving Penn -
It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
Nazanin Boniadi -
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
Baba Kalyani -
I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
Rachel Kushner -
After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
Barack Obama -
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
Garry Trudeau -
I'm always open to trying out new things.
Natalie Dormer -
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
Ed Sheeran -
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
Barry McGee
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I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.
William Butler Yeats -
Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
Andy Rooney -
If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'
J. Reuben Clark -
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
Etgar Keret