Quotes About Ambiguity

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

I don't know if I'm supposed to be holding on or letting go. I don't want to give up, but if there's nothing for me to hope for, then tell me.

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I wasn't sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

I don't care about this stuff. I'm not even sure I'm a girl. I'm an eye in the sky. I am detached. I'm an idiot.