Etgar Keret Quotes
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
Quotes to Explore
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.
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The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
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If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of reach, it could seem scary.
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The recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
