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
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  • Trying
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• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Girl
  • Door

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
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  • Kind

• There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Kind
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  • Evening

• 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
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• 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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  • Stop
  • Kind

• 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
  • Trying
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  • Pretty

• 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
  • World
  • Trying
  • May

• It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Kind
  • Being
  • Award

• We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Europe

• 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
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• 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
  • Trying
  • Home
  • America

• When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Kind
  • Feel
  • Doing

• I'm always open to trying out new things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Trying
  • Always
  • New Things

• 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.
  • Trying
  • Missing

• Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

  

  Bryan Fogel
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Police

• It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • Trying

• Any time I was at Trader Joes, and the person bagging my stuff would be like, 'Did I go to college with you? How do I know you?' Then it took awhile, and suddenly people were like, 'Oh, you are the girl from 'United States of Tara.'

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Time
  • Girl

• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live

• Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

  

  Edward Eggleston
  • Interesting
  • Circus
  • Weddings

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Language
  • Body
  • Garment

• I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Parent