#understand

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#appeal #being #different #different way #direct

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. ↗

— David Suzuki

#art work #combined #created #growth #how

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#better #cohen #comprehend #fascinated #help

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#difficult #everything #had #i #know

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#birth #distracted #ethical #fellow #his

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#become #calls #family #filming #had

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#biggest #biggest problem #boring #people #poetry

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#best #closer #decisions #dedicated #education

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#any #beautiful #buy #dollars #i

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#arena #bodies #clearly #commit #enough