Quotes About Ambivalence

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

We move between two darknesses.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.

I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

She was always struggling over what was the best way to react. There were so many contradictions between what she was told and what she saw that she could only hesitatingly move forward, lacking, as she did, power and knowledge. She was a girl trying to make her way.

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

You have minds. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

I don't think I was ever in a mindset where I don't want to fight cause I feel like every time that I tried to draw away from fighting, I was always pulled back in.

I've never read a script in which you are actively pulling for the protagonist in the beginning, but little by little, you lose that.

Though I was nominated for awards for films like 'Tezaab' and 'Apna Sapna Money Money' but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

I'm never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me.

I wanted to explore the world and explore life. I wanted to have more to life than Flint.

There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Sometimes, I do think about direction but I haven't much about it. I don't know if I want to put my foot in the other boat.

I can't say I love football anymore.