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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? Jami Attenberg

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The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. Kenzaburo Oe

Country Invader Drove Ambiguous Japan Asia Orientation Position

A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place. Leila Slimani

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. Lindsey Buckingham

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To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another. Lou Doillon

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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. May Sarton

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Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster. Meghan Markle

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Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. Melvin Maddocks

Would Rather Uncertainties Wrong Almost Journalists Like Ambiguous Than Report

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes? Milos Forman

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers. Nicolas Cage

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. Oliver Ellsworth

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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. Richard Lugar

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying. Sarah Koenig

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special. Stefon Harris

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I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. Stephen Rea

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Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom. Tom Bissell

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