Ellar Coltrane Quotes

#1. My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.

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#2. It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

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#3. It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.

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#4. I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.

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#5. I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities.

Ingmar Bergman

#6. I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

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#7. I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

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#8. I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

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#9. I was raised to be some kind of artist.

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#10. I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

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#11. Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.

Judah Friedlander

#12. The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

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#13. Westboro Baptist Church: STOP. Stop protesting the funerals of our soldiers who died in action because you are anti-gay. When one of you dies, I'm going to show up with a couple of gay veterans and we're going to do a musical at your funeral.

Billy Crystal

#14. I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.

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#15. I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

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#16. I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

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#17. The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

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#18. If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Sylvia Plath

#19. I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

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#20. If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

John A. Sanford

#21. I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

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#22. I sweat terror, Robyn! I'm scared every single second about every single goddamned thing. I worry obsessively about being buried under an avalanche of fear. Jesus, Robyn, I'm scared like only the truly crazy can be.'
'But that, you dope, is the definition of courage: you go on despite the fear.

Teresa Toten

#23. You gonna eat that?

Vincent Yanez

#24. It took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you deal with an audience as a bunch of people having a great time, you'll have a much bettrer time as a performer

Rory Block

#25. Angels are always with you. You're never alone, especially in your time of need. Listen in stillness for our guidance, which comes upon wings to your heart, mind, and body. Our messages always speak of love.

Doreen Virtue

#26. In the mirror the brow furrowed in confusion, this was not her soul that she saw in the reflection. The eyes filled with tears of anguish. The face aches with despair.
Then the being retreats to her solitude, deliciously succumbing to the dissociation

Tina J. Richardson

#27. I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

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#28. My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

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#29. I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

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#30. We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#31. I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

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