Etgar Keret Quotes
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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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.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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It's important to me what the viewers think.
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I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.
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A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.
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I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
