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've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament.
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If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
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I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.
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We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.
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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.
