Quotes About Ambivalence

Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me.

In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

You hate Tad Allagash. Go home. Cut your losses. Stay. Go for it. You are a republic of voices tonight.

The other kids stared at us whispering among themselves, but they also kept distance, as if they hadn't decided whether we were predators or prey.

Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?" "With pleasure." I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.

Do you regret those days?' 'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.

Des fois, je donnerais ma main à couper pour devenir tout de suite un homme et d'autres fois il me semble que je ne voudrais pas survivre à ma jeunesse.

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

You can conclude from the glossy surfaces of 'The L Word' that L stands for latte or Lexus and stop there. Or you can notice that in some of its less flashy moments, the show has staked a claim on Large - as in a larger, denser, more ambivalent imaginary world, populated by imperfect and riveting citizens of all sexual stripes.

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.

I am pessimistically optimistic.

I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it's an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.