Quotes About Ambivalence

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.

I revere my serials. But the reality, at the same time, is that it is difficult to get a break in films. I have been unceremoniously ousted from 20-25 films because I am a serial actor.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.

I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

This is really clear to me now. Ever since, I've never felt as tepid of this place as other people do. Everything seems like a long, improbable afterlife.

Even then, when the hike was perfect, I would wonder, 'Now what?' And take a picture. Take another picture. Like a man with a photogenic girlfriend he didn't love.

who you are, but I'm not in love with you.

La brezza fredda e il fumo della Camel si mescolavano come gioia e rimorso.

He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down.

Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you.

I walked into a bakery seven years later and there he was. He had dogs at his feet and a bird in a cage beside him. The seven years were not seven years. They were not seven hundred years. Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted. I wanted to run away from him, and I wanted to go right up to him.

El concepto de arte comprometido es una ingenuidad porque nadie sabe del todo lo que ejecuta. (The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what they are doing.)

Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

Children who experience anxious or ambivalent attachments to their primary caregivers may "fall in love" too easily, seeking extreme closeness right off the bat and reacting intensely to any suggestion of abandonment.

That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?

I'm at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn't started.

Did I want meat or fish for dinner? I couldn't decide. Hair up or down? Either. Would I prefer to walk or bike? Neither. I wanted to sleep. It felt as if in making any inconsequential decision, I might choose wrongly and forever close a door; there would go my other life.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.