Dichotomy Quotes

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. We were all encouraged to believe that the classics of the theater were the fiery hoops through which you`d have to pass if you were going to have any self-esteem as a performer. It never occurred to me that that was the case. One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. The great tradition of liberalism in England is essentially a sponge that absorbs all possibility of change. America looked different to me: the idea of America as a place of infinite possibilities was defined for me through the movies. I`m glad I did the classical work that I did, but it just wasn`t for me. I`m a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that`s the most obvious.

"I feel ashamed of us. We had an opportunity to lead the world in a different way after 9/11 and we blew it. And I don`t know if we`ll ever recover. And then we re- elected that bonehead. I want to walk around saying, `I`m so sorry.` America`s a dichotomy. It`s binge and purge. It`s really right-wing, and also the left is coming up. It`s stuff yourself and then starve yourself."

I love, love, love the medium of film. But that is the strange dichotomy of film, is that the medium is so unbelievably magical and wonderful, and the business is so--UGH! It`s kind of the price you pay. Some friend of mine said you`re not getting paid to work in the medium; you`d almost do that for free. But you`re getting paid to suffer all the, you know-(Laughs).

The community method is more humanistic but it?s still highly professional, ... Ashland already accepts that. The dichotomy has been overplayed.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we`re as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

It`s an interesting dichotomy, ... We know we`re the defending state champ, so we`ve got to be ready for that.

We really need to change that historic dichotomy of cognition on the one hand, emotions on the other hand, and realize that our emotions are the fuel that gives rise to social behavior but also to different levels of intelligence,

Having to choose between goodness and beauty is a false dichotomy.