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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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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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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Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
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If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?
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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.
