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 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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There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
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Grace has helped me to see that there are shades of gray. That no one out there is either "flawed" or "flawless" and that it's as dangerous to think that someone is perfect as it is to think he or she is poison. Grace has taught me how to be more guarded when appropriate and how to practice patience before judging myself or others too harshly.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.
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Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
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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.
