Ali Smith Quotes

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

I'm crazy, but I'm serious. I'm sentimental, but I'm, like, really hard, too. I just want people to understand that I have all these sides inside me.

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

There are always two sides to a person. CL is me, and so is Chaelin.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

We are not always even what we are most.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

Like everybody I have many different sides.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

No one is any one thing.

I like characters who are contradictory.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I think I'm a million different faces.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.