Quotes About Duality

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write best and think best in between those two masks.

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

I was raised as a Catholic and as an Ismaili. My father felt that I should have some training in Islam, but my mother was a Catholic, so really, I was raised with both.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

When they say 'action' I transform into a reserved person and as soon as they say 'cut' I am Sanjeeda.

I am playing the character of Sanjana in 'Race 3' and it is very a dark character in the initial phase of the film but towards the end, it gets transformed into a positive character.

I'm constantly going through the transition of love and hate at the same time and it just makes me who I am.

Yo formaba parte de ellos. Llevaba su uniforme. Sin embargo, nadie sabía que yo era uno de ellos sólo para esconderme de ellos. Dentro de sus filas estaba seguro.

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

ObÅ'Ä™d i szaÅ', rozczarowanie i ?al, SiÄ…d? tu, a opowiem tobie o mÄ™ce tÄ™sknoty I zdwojonym bólu.

Ah, yes," he replied, "that's true; this is such a civilized country. They have such marvelous houses for dead corpses. But haven't you noticed? They have such wonderful houses for the living corpses too.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

They's men and mens. Some good. Some bad. Some breathing death. Some breathing life.

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent-- mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

I am what everyone always thought. A killer.

To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

In their dreams at night, people wander around as long as they sleep; just so, they are under the power of the snake Maya, as long as their hearts are filled with ego and duality.