Quotes About Contrast

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

We require, as a species, the difference between what is safe and unsafe to define ourselves. Be it in darkness or in light, where we are means nothing without the comparison to the other place - where we are not. And thus it is the difference between them that tells us who and what we are.

You can't define yourself either in shades of what you are contesting or entirely in antithesis to it. By doing so, what you reveal is that you have nothing to say for yourself. Or that you are unsure of your messaging.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.

Being from the Middle East paired with my upbringing in the United States had pretty polarising effects on the way I perceive beauty.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.