Etgar Keret Quotes

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

Etgar Keret

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: August 20, 1967

Topics

MyselfMeWillAlwaysUpFacebook

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

AdversityOvercomingFreshActivity

I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.

Maxine Peake

HaircutTomboyBigHadWore

People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.

Maxwell

LifePeopleRealityDoingTalking

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Andy Goldsworthy

BalanceEnoughAchieveGoThreeTry

I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.

Andy Kindler

HateI AmPeopleThinkTryingGo

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

Sturgill Simpson

LifeMusicLooking BackLookingSelf

I've always loved acting, and I do respect the craft.

Romeo Santos

RespectLovedActingCraftAlways

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you're having an experience that is positive and that you're learning from.

Julia Roberts

PositiveLearningGreatDayMeEnd

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Jose Andres

GoodFutureFoodChefTruckThink

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Denis Villeneuve

HumilityPeopleIdeasEvilEgoYou

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Dean Acheson

MistakeWorseThanImmoral

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

Philip Johnson

YouHouseCountryKnowNiceGlass

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