- Controversy
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- 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
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.
- Controversial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you chase a dream, and no one understand or has your back except seven friends from high school and your grandma, it's not going to be easy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020