Ansel Elgort (Ansølo) Quotes
I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
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I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
