Etgar Keret Quotes

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

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• It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • World
  • Age
  • Popular

• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

  Zendaya
  • Way
  • Change
  • Speak

• I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Job
  • American
  • Speak

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Popular
  • Said

• If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Never
  • Speak
  • Quiet

• I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Know
  • Speak

• I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Always
  • Popular
  • Really

• I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Popular

• I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Star
  • Speak

• There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Done
  • Marriage

• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Speak

• I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Popular
  • Tough
  • Frankly

• I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Popular

• Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Speak
  • Just
  • German

• I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • War
  • Peace

• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

  

  David Puttnam
  • People
  • Art
  • Age

• But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

  

  Mel Torme
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Popular

• I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Important
  • Book
  • Spirit

• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Singing
  • Laugh
  • River

• Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Speak
  • Popular
  • Asks