Etgar Keret Quotes
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
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I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.
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It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
