Etgar Keret Quotes

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

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• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Children
  • Help

• I no longer limit myself.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Myself
  • Limit
  • Longer

• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • American
  • House

• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Trust
  • Fact
  • Main

• When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Day
  • End

• Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Boys
  • Means
  • Loving

• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Follow
  • Super

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
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  • Growing

• I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Right
  • Absolutely
  • Billion

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Popular
  • Appreciation

• The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Musician

• Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Industry

• What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

  

  Etgar Keret
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