Quotes About Ambiguity

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything

It was very hard to tell when he was acting and when he wasn't – sometimes with unfortunate consequences

It could have happened like that.' Why did Hawthorne have to sound so unsure when it was perfectly obvious to me?

All I had, really, were vague feelings.

He once said to me that it was like being in one of those Russian prisons where they lock you up without telling you the length of your sentence.

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything makes sense. Just about every whodunnit provides that pleasure.

she didn't colour her hair, which was lost in the dead man's land between brown and grey.

warships. It wasn't exactly what

History provides no precise guidelines.

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.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

People know me but can't quite place me - they squint at me like I might be their old school teacher or a woman they've seen down the local pub.

I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. More than likely, they'd do both.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

I like a lot of the older country stuff. Shoot. We actually do really good in punk rock clubs. I don't really know where our fan base lies.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.