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'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

~Brendan Fletcher

Topics: Ambiguity Between Characters Felt Freedom Frontier Great Great Sense Had Just Life Line Loved Sense True Unpredictable Very Walked Western Wild

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

~Carl Sandburg

Topics: Age Always Ambiguity Better Candid Felt Her Herself Ninety Over Passes Perhaps Realm Right She Subject Then Treat Until Woman World

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One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: About Ambiguity Goodnight Leaves Like Moon Much One Of The Things Room Things Way

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I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.

~Chadwick Boseman

Topics: African-American Ambiguity Bad Because Characters Either Else Even Good Hero Like Magical May Often One Thing Other Own Perfectly Someone Story Thing Think Very Villain You Your I Think

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It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: About Ambiguity Country Else Enough Everything Everything Else Find Free History Including Inspiring May Need New New Ways No Country Nuance Own Past Present Reading Sake Study Study History Thinking Way Ways

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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

~David Kay

Topics: Able Always Ambiguity Beyond Come Conclusions Destruction Document Going Here Negatives Positive Prove Really Result Some Truth Unresolved Will

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Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Ambiguity Been Contains Cut Every Film Final Itself Made Many Might Novel Other Perhaps Readers Slides Specificity Text Toward Versions Way Where Whereas

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People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

~Don Mclean

Topics: Ambiguity Ask Complex Course Did Had Left Lyrics Make Me Open People Series Society State Statements Time Wanted Whole

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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Ambiguity Dwells Fiction Good Nature

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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Also Ambiguity Bets Consequences Entrepreneurs Future Going Know Law Lever Making Only Outcome Picture Push Think Which

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