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I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

~Bob Fosse

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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

~Brad Carson

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No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

~Colin Hanks

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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

~Don Johnson

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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

~Elia Kazan

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I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

~Emily Browning

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I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

~Emily Browning

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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

~Erica Jong

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Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

~Etgar Keret

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As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.

~Geoffrey Rush

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