Ansel Elgort (Ansølo) Quotes
I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn't come easy.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
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Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
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In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
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I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn't come easy.
