in the same breath

In the past Ms. Lin has always conceived of her different career strands as separate. “I think it may be the only way I can keep myself balanced,” she said. Although she is also working on a commission for the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown in Manhattan, she is reluctant to talk about such projects and her artwork in the same breath. “It kind of confuses people,” she said.

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in the same breath
If you say two things in the same breath, you say two things that are so different that if one is true, the other must be false:
You say you're bored and frustrated but in the same breath say you're resigned to staying in the same job.