Quotes About Duality

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

You and I, we have seen all of this before, the manner in which two opposing forces – no matter how disparate their origins, no matter how righteously one begins the conflict – end up becoming virtually identical to each other.

Darkness was anathema to shadows.

Evil speaks in lies. And the good know only one truth. But it's a lie, because there's always more than one truth

Walk with me on Thieves' Road hear its song underfoot how clear its tone in misstep as it sings you in two

My Queen, neither mortal nor immortal can fathom the mind of an artist. But as a general rule, between two possible answers, choose the more sordid one.' 'Of course. How silly of me.

I do not want to meet my evil self,' said Pearl. Draconus glanced across at him. 'Who does?

And the good know only one truth. But it's a lie, because there's always more than one truth.

She had a disapproving look that was just a little exaggerated; if you look carefully at that look, you can spot a smile that hangs around its edges and usually draw it out.

In truth, every one of us leads a double life. We act one way when the door is open, another when it's closed. We have certain impressions we try to make on others, pretenses we strive to keep up.

It is like putting a dehumidifier and a humidifier in the same room and letting them fight it out.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

She was finding it increasingly difficult to dispel the illusion she was speaking to Khaster. Merlan was someone else; she must be careful.