Etgar Keret Quotes

I remember a point in writing the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."

Etgar Keret

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• Wife
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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Great
  • She
  • Play

• Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Art
  • House
  • Hand

• I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thought
  • Wrong
  • Back

• I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Think
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Our songs all carry the same way.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Way
  • Same
  • Carry

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Time
  • Different
  • Me

• We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• My commitment is that Crown Sydney won't be just another hotel: it will be a landmark building for Sydney with a design and quality that the city deserves.

  

  James Packer
  • City
  • Quality
  • Design

• They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

  

  Mark Goddard

• I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • Enemy
  • Creativity

• The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I wanted to be an actress from about the age of five.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Age

• Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

  

  James Marsden
  • Boy

• I hate watching myself on screen! I absolutely hate it, it's so hard to watch. I can see myself in magazines, but watching on TV or movies is like, 'Ugh.'

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Hate

• I could wear a dress one day and boyfriend jeans the next. I usually just want to make sure I'm comfortable.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Boyfriend

• By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.

  

  Homer
  • Confidence
  • Discoveries
  • Aid

• My passion never fades out.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Passion

• I remember a point in writing the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Wife