Etgar Keret Quotes
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
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'Pod' was a significantly larger crew with Ilium Pictures co-producing. 'Darling' was bare bones. We had less than half of the crew that we had for 'Pod.'
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As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.
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Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.
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Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
