Quotes About Uncertainty

And yet my lexicon develops without logic, in a darting, fleeting manner. The words appear, accompany me for a while, then, often without warning, abandon me.

Willfully anticipating, in ignorance and in hope—this was how most people lived.

given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself or to deny him, she could not be sure.

C'era una donna, una traduttrice, che voleva essere un'altra persona. Non c'era un motivo chiaro. Era sempre stato così.

After a minute they continue on, toward the nurses' station. "Hoping for a boy or a girl?" Patty asks. "As long as there are ten finger and ten toe," Ashima replies.

I pack a bag and catch a train from the central station. I stare up at all the destinations one might go, listed on the big board, and I think of all the places I might still visit, and how arbitrary one's own path is.

Ambos tinham buscado conforto um no outro e em seu mundo compartilhado, talvez porque fosse uma novidade, ou por medo de que esse mundo estivesse morrendo lentamente.

the bathroom to weigh myself or to the kitchen to drink a glass of tepid water before preparing the coffeepot. The city doesn't beckon or lend me a shoulder today. Maybe it knows I'm about to leave. The sun's dull disk defeats me; the dense sky is the same one that will carry me away. That vast and vaporous territory, lacking precise pathways, is all that binds us together now. But it never preserves our tracks.

I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.