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.
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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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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 think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.
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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
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In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.
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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.
