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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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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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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Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.
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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.
