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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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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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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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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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 bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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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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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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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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Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
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What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
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When you get a certain level of resources, and you want things a certain way, I find it difficult to get too belligerent because it's not my money.In this case it is. It’s a lot easier to stand your ground and say “I want it like this” when you know it’s your money you’re spending.
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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.
