Quotes About Ambivalence

Jeff sensed that he'd risen, that he was no longer someone who could be inconsequentially ignored. He sensed, too, that he was perceived as an opportunist and a carpetbagger.

Sometimes I don't even know if I'm extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot when I think of you

Aphrodite embodies sexuality free of ambivalence, anxieties and self-consciousness, a sexuality so natural and quintessential to her that no myth deals with her virginity or its loss.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.

If I get a gig or I don't get a gig, I really have never, ever, ever cared.

I don't miss playing for the national side, I am glad to be out of it.

Everything has good and bad.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

I think I would probably have been a good mother.

Even the worst thing has two good verso-sides.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

I know a lot of people who hate the ending of 'Rosemary's Baby' and wish that it was left ambiguous.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answer any questions, so what makes that ending so scary is you walk out feeling dirty because you don't even know what happened. It feels wrong.

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

I'm not very interested in fame or notoriety at all - in fact, I'd be pretty bummed out if I woke up one day and I was, like, super, super famous. But the flipside of that is that I'm really passionate about my music, I'm really proud of it and I want it to be heard by as many people as possible, and I'm willing to embrace whatever comes with that.

In terms of the themes, I love gray areas. The show is really about what makes someone truly good or what makes someone truly bad, and are we either of those things? 'Loki' is in that gray area.