Gray Area Quotes

• Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

  Ridley Scott

  Black And White, Black White, Areas

  "Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

  Isaiah Washington

  Beautiful, Black And White, Divine Order

  "Interview: Isaiah Washington Talks to S&A About Tapping into the Mind of the Beltway Sniper in ‘Blue Caprice’". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

  Tracey Emin

  Memories, Years, Moments

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• I love the gray area between right and wrong.

  Dan Brown

  Gray, Areas

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• Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

  Jodie Foster

  Jobs, Gray, Areas

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• Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Book, Novel, Memoir

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• In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

  David Baldacci

  Guy, Thrillers, Areas

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• I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

  Brian McKnight

  Creating, People, Legends

  "Musician Brian McKnight Uses 'More Than Words'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2013.

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• The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Life, Believe, Black And White

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

  Dan Brown

  Silence, Yes And No, Answers

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Cutting, Trying, Sometimes

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.153, Macmillan

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• The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Discrepancies Between, Source, Enormous

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• There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

  Laura San Giacomo

  White, People, Evil

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• Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Black And White, Thinking, Wish

  Interview with Norah Piehl, www.bookreporter.com. May 14, 2010.

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• Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

  Dan Brown

  Hero, Interesting, Villain

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• Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

  Kobe Bryant

  Winning, Areas, Precedence

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• If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

  Robert Redford

  Blue, White, America

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Gutters, Compromise, Resolution

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• Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

  Laini Taylor

  Smell, Shining, Cleanliness

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Book, Black And White, Self

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• I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

  Graham Elliot

  Fun, Black And White, Creative

  "Interview: Graham Elliot previews the return of ‘MasterChef Junior’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 4, 2014.

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• I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.72, Penguin

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