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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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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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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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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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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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.
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When you don't come from a film background, getting the right debut is important and difficult, as you don't have the sensibility to know what will work and what won't.
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If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
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Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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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.
