Casey Neistat Quotes
The technical process which is interesting in it’s own right but I think the creative process is what’s more intriguing to me.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.
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Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.
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My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.
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What's interesting when you see 'Black Panther' is you realize it couldn't have been directed by anybody else but Ryan Coogler. It's a great adventure movie, and it works on all those different levels as entertainment, but it has this kind of cultural through-line that is so specific that it makes it universal.
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The technical process which is interesting in it’s own right but I think the creative process is what’s more intriguing to me.
