Etgar Keret Quotes

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

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• Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

  

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• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

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• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

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• Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

  

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• I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

  

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• I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.

  

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• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

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• My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

  

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

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• It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

  

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• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

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• Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

  

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• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  

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• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

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• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

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• In the beginning was mechanics.

  

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Beautiful
  • Sometimes
  • Situation