Conflicting Roles Quotes

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

Even the Intelligence agency has an office of public affairs which may seem like an oxymoron.

With the best will, no one can be an official and a man.

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.

He was trying to save both his faces.

Weirdly, me and Sarri got along off the pitch, but on the pitch it was totally different.

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

I cannot serve in the government and at the same time be in opposition to it.

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

I want to direct more often. The job of a producer brings its own benefit as you start to see the simplicity of film making. But yes there is a constant battle between the director and producer in me.

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life - or self - was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely "sister of the queen" or "daughter of the king" because that is her identity and it's all she's ever known. And at the same time she is struggling to push the boundaries and to break away from it, to be different or to modernize the monarchy, to turn it on its head.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

I'm the President's friend, I'm not the President's man.

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.