Tiffeny Milbrett Quotes

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.