Etgar Keret Quotes

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

Etgar Keret

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• Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Experience

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Storytelling

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Health

• I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Important
  • Health
  • Problem

• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Danger
  • Divorce
  • Independence

• I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Music

• A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Life
  • Winning
  • Frustration

• I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Imagination

• My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Power
  • Passion

• When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.

  

  Donna Langley
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Beach

• We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Stupid

• The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Hair

• Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Program