Etgar Keret Quotes

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

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• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

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• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

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• Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

  

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• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

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• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  

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• I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

  

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• My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

  

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• You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

  

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• You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

  

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• I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

  

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• Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.

  

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• When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.

  

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• I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.

  

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• It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.

  

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• We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.

  

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• I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Should