Nick Veasey Quotes
We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.
Quotes to Explore
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
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I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
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When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
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I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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I do not pretend to sustain the order. At the time of its publication I was insensed by a reprimand recieved from Washington for permitting acts which the Jews, within my lines, were engaged in.
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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...
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I think the word 'woke' is now over. The first time I heard my mature, white dad use that term, I was like 'OK, this is done.'
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It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
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If you want to see theater you go to New York.
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Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.
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I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.
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Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.
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We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.
