Etgar Keret Quotes
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
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Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.
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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
