Quotes About Complexity

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

There's not much difference between love and hate.

The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

I can understand why we got bad reviews. We went right over people's heads. One album would follow another and would have nothing to do with what we'd done before. People didn't know what was going on.

America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.

Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy - that's the place to go. That's what makes a great show. That's what all of us deal with in life.

I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.

For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.

I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.

There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.

Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.

Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.

I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.

When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.