Etgar Keret Quotes

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

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• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • World
  • Good
  • Travel

• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Religion
  • Masses
  • Opium

• Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Way

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fear
  • Role
  • Plays

• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Up
  • Think
  • Past

• If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Art
  • Home

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Reflect

• My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Politics

• The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Great
  • Job
  • Me

• I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Me
  • Shoes

• I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Book
  • Want

• The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

  

  Garth Davis
  • World
  • Work
  • Character

• You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

  

  Aaron Judge
  • Center
  • Range
  • Fielder

• I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • People
  • Different

• When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Character
  • Book
  • Language