I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.
What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.
What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
