Etgar Keret Quotes

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Long
  • Done
  • High

• Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Support
  • Year
  • Cat

• It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Believe
  • See

• We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Good
  • Year
  • Sales

• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Being

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• Consequence is no coincidence.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Consequence
  • Coincidence

• Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Silence
  • Content
  • Characteristics

• The secret of life is in art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Secret

• You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Believe

• But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Stories

• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Movie
  • Desire
  • Joy

• In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Together
  • Past
  • Individual

• Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Way
  • Leadership
  • Reminds

• I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.

  

  Etgar Keret
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