Etgar Keret Quotes
I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.
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Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
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Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.
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On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
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I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
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Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing but a political and administrative support of terrorist acts
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I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
