Etgar Keret Quotes
Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
Quotes to Explore
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Because men complained less, we made the false assumption that the complaints women experienced were only women’s complaints and, therefore, only women’s problems. Which created the rationale for women’s problems to be solved – or at least addressed – by public policy.
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Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
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I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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I knew my priority was acting, and school came second. If I had an audition and meetings, I did the school work later.
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I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
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Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
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The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.
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... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
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I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
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The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
