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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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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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.
