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Ambiguity Quote by Mike Mills

“My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.” quote by Mike Mills — Download Open image

“My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.”

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Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside…

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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in…

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I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and…

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The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

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The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to…

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Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt…

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

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You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

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I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

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Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror…

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my…

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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in…

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In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

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I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

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I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with…

Stephen Jay Gould

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

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