Etgar Keret Quotes

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

Etgar Keret

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Know
  • Side
  • Other

• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • America
  • Interesting

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Long
  • Equality

• The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • You
  • Way
  • Just

• We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Women
  • Forever

• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Society

• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Calm

• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  

  Edmond About
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Battle

• It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Man
  • Me
  • Woman

• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  

  Walt Disney
  • End
  • Independence
  • Symbol

• Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Writing

• If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Writing
  • She
  • History

• Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

  

  William Monahan
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Differences

• There was never any question about Scholesy's quality as a footballer. He was known as the little ginger magician in the youth team. Some reckon he's the best United player of the modern era, and there's a case for saying that. You don't hear him blowing his own trumpet, though - he just gets on with his job. He's the real deal.

  

  Stephen Bruce
  • Quality
  • Player
  • Modern

• I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Seeing
  • Loses