Etgar Keret Quotes
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
Quotes to Explore
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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There is a certain dignity to being French.
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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover.
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I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.
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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
