- Nov 07, 2020
Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
- State
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was that 16-year-old who loved WWE, and I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but I didn't understand why I had to be the bad guy. I wanted to be like Jeff Hardy - I wanted to be like Rey Mysterio - but I was told I had to be the guy who screamed terrible things about America and attack people from behind.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don't understand how people being happy can affect others so much - just let them be.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows kids who are snotty, and I wouldn't consider myself one of them, but it's easy to understand where they're coming from.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020