Ansel Elgort (Ansølo) Quotes
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.
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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
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I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.
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I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
