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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We're just like a regular family.
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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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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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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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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly powerful but is always going to create waves.
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It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.
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When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, 'What the heck is going to go on here?'
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Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
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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.
