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.
Etgar Keret
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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Aaron Spelling
I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
Kate Winslet
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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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.
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Dan Marino
I no longer limit myself.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Nathan Deal
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Kate Forsyth
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Zac Goldsmith
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Cameron Dallas
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Harold Prince
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Natalie MacMaster
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
Randy Bachman
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Ian Mckellen
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
William Allen White
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.
Frederic Chopin
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Scott Ian
Anthrax
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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
