Etgar Keret Quotes
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned
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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.
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How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.
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You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.
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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
