Ansel Elgort (Ansølo) Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
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The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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All I want to do is work.
