Quotes About Ambiguity

It's hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

I wanted the ending of 'Water Lilies' to be open, so that everyone can have their point of view about what will happen to the girls.

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

I don't think anyone really has a clue what they are doing in their 20s and, in a lot of cases, their 30s.

Not many college students know what they want to do.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.