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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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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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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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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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.
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I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.
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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.
