Quotes About Duality

That's what you gonna get with me: the dark aspects of life. Of course, you've got to have some type of light in there, but if it was all light, you'd be blinded. You've got to balance them out.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

I feel that my drive and ambition is more American, while the passionate, laid-back side of me is all Brazilian.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

I love the life in LA, it really suits this point in time, but London is home. I feel like I'm lucky that I get to have a bit of both, so rather than have to choose life just works out where I have to be in one place.

I have a reputation that was sort of built on suits and boots, so I'm a huge fan of the sartorial equivalent of a mullet, where you're business on top and party on the bottom.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work.

Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

How he loved and yet wished to leave you: always both, at once.

Vielleicht sind gewisse meiner neulich ausgesprochenen Bedenken sehr übertrieben; so viel, wie ich mich kenne, scheint mir sicher, daß, wenn man mir meine Teufel austriebe, auch meinen Engeln ein kleinen, ein ganz kleiner (sagen wir) Schrecken geschähe, - und - fühlen Sie - gerade darauf darf ich es auf keinen Preis ankommen lassen.

that young man, like the son of a neck and a nun