Etgar Keret Quotes
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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You have a God who loves you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you.
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I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15.
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.