Etgar Keret Quotes
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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Situation very serious... Those ordered to rescue the Führer are keeping silent... Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere... Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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The situation has gone from bad to worse.
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We're going to have to wait that out, ... But if I had to guess right now, I think it would make it tough for him to make it back for Monday night. We'll just have to work our way through that situation and see what's the best way of handling that.
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It's something we're trying to gain information about and letting them talk and visit and seeing what situations may be out there. And we're doing the same thing. We'll see if there's a fit. It has to make sense for us and make sense for both sides.
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The Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and others, exactly. We have to take a close look at their tax regimes, particularly if we want to move forward with European integration. We can't have a situation in which some EU member states enrich themselves at the expense of their partners.
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It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
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I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
