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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.
As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.
I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.