Etgar Keret Quotes

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

Etgar Keret

• Writing
• Fun
• Kind
• Novel
• Grateful
• Tragic
• Homework
• Relieved

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• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  

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  • Man
  • Color
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• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

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• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

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• The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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  • Kids
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• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

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• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

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• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

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  • Place
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• I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

  

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• Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively.

  

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  • Mind
  • Me
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• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

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  • Energy
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• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

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• I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

  

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• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

  

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• How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

  

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• I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.

  

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• A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

  

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• Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

  

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• I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

  

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• You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute.But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits.Ain't no closing time, ain't no cover charge.Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm.

  

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Kind