Etgar Keret Quotes
You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
