Etgar Keret Quotes
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.
