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I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

~Anna Sui

Topics: About Always Ambiguity Anna Bad Bad Girl Downtown Girl Good Good Girl Kind Like More People She Someone Talk Talking Think Whenever Woman I Think

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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

~Antonin Scalia

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I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

~Barry Eisler

Topics: Ambiguity Bad Bad Things Characters Conflict Drawn Find Good Good Guys Great Guys Heroes Makes Moral Sure Things Think Villains Who Why

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It was about a football program that brought in massive amounts of money. They're going to try to cover something up, because it's about money at the end of the day. That's clear. There's no ambiguity to that. Paterno is much more complicated and contradictory, and that's why he's interesting to me.

~Barry Levinson

Topics: About Ambiguity Amount Because Brought Clear Complicated Contradictory Cover Day End End Of The Day Football Going He Interesting Massive Me Money More Much Program Something Try Up Why

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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Absorb Ambiguity Dispute Doubt Ease Fact Ignorance Invention Land Man Mixing Quite Reach Truth Trying

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If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

~Ben Wheatley

Topics: About Ambiguity Art Cinema Communication Everything How Judge Life Looks Lot Missing Out Real Reflected Should Storytelling Then Think You I Think

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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Against Ambiguity Avoided Been Experience Idealism More More And More Perceived Realists Result Revolt Word

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I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

~Bill Pullman

Topics: Always Ambiguity Broad Clearing Clutter Getting Great Kind Out Right Situation Strokes Think Westerns I Think

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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Actually Ambiguity Ambivalence Clear Free He He Or She Home Lead Message Poet Poetry She Think Uncertainty Unequivocally Want Wanted Whereas Would I Think

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People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.

~Billy Collins

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