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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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
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I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.
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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.
