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I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.
Doug Jones
Character
You
Evil
Every
Kind
Kinda
Some
Take
Empathy
Like
Know
Because
Understand
Get
Just
Just Because
Want
Them
Really
Connect
Actor
Play
Played
My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another.
Doug Liman
Family
Living
Slice
Way
One-Way
Perfect
Another
Understand
Replaced
Gets
Happens
Utopia
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams
You
Trust
Mistake
People
Internet
Rubbish
Complain
Type
Broadcasting
Web
Online
New
Read
Because
Understand
Still
Lot
Dominated
American
Really
Used
Publishing
Necessarily
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
Douglas Alexander
Age
World
Our
Backs
Simply
Understand
Option
Interconnectedness
Turning
Growing
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
Douglas Lain
Philosophers
Books
Critics
Employ
Academics
Understand
Often
Order
Movies
Them
Theories
Help
Dissect
This was a time when racism was still very rampant, but the music that came out of Sun Studio was absolutely color blind. It was all about feeling. It was music that anybody could understand, and that made a step towards bettering the world for everyone.
Drake Milligan
Music
Time
Racism
World
Made
Feeling
Rampant
Everyone
Sun
Out
About
Color
Could
Absolutely
Step
Studio
Towards
Blind
Understand
Still
Came
Very
Anybody
I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.
Dries van Noten
Good
Thought
Criticism
Sense
Back
Like
Look
Makes
Understand
Were
Anymore
Them
Much
Agree
Shows
Now
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington
Life
Bible
People
Word
Mine
About
More
Had
Learned
Understand
Becoming
Been
Began
Taught
Acquainted
Much
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
Dustin Hoffman
You
Bored
Boredom
Understand
How
Continuously
Goes
Human
Just
Human Beings
Depressed
Personally
Us
Beings
Rebirth
Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.
Dustin Hoffman
You
Seven
Aptly
Minutes
More
Both
Never
House
Well
Understand
Been
Than
Get
Us
I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I understand the importance of it.
Dustin Johnson
People
Try
Nice
Sign
Possible
Pretty
Importance
Well
Understand
Autographs
It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy's autograph. I'd tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, 'People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.' But she couldn't really grasp it.
Dwayne Johnson
Time
People
Wife
Long
Long Time
Too
Took
Meet
Tell
Would
See
Excited
She
Him
Understand
Autograph
Want
Movies
Really
Grasp
Daddy
Why
Her
I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.
Dwight Howard
Try
Thought
Everybody
Way
Out
Never
Put
Cry
Because
Understand
Did
Intention
Being
Orlando
I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
Dwyane Wade
Jordan
Understand
Chicago
Up
Michael
Michael Jordan
Grew
I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.
Dwyane Wade
You
Will
Become
Think
Kids
Parent
Understand
Endure
Really
Your
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
Dylan McDermott
You
Compassion
Once
Distraction
Embrace
Someone
Takes
Feel
Understand
Them
Engage
Your
Help
Away
I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
Dylan Moran
Me
Else
Draw
Around
Understand
Target
Trying
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Moving
Much
Really
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Dangerous
Weapons
More
Understand
Boy
Than
Should
Play
When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Earl Monroe
Great
Me
Game
People
Lasting
Back
Relationships
Way
Those
Locker
Locker Room
About
Guys
Had
Miss
Days
Know
Most
Talk
Great Way
Understand
Itself
Getting
Being
Form
Room
Roommates
Ask
Basketball
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
Eavan Boland
Art
History
Language
Down
System
Evolution
Would
See
Poem
Poems
Vast
Individual
Almost
Come
Ideas
Also
Understand
Source
Tap
Began
Just
Root
Growing
The basic thing you have to understand is everything that happens on that spaceship, from the time you crawl into that seat to the time it touches down, is controlled from the ground. There's no one thing that makes a good astronaut. I don't know any person with determination and will that can't go to space.
Ed Dwight
Time
Good
You
Determination
Space
Will
Down
Everything
Astronaut
One Thing
No-One
Know
Makes
Understand
Go
Person
Any
Controlled
Happens
Spaceship
Crawl
Ground
Seat
Thing
Basic
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
Ed Koch
Government
Nature
People
Too Many People
Congress
Too
Stay
Most
Understand
Been
Elected
Really
Who
Many
Enjoyed
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
Eddie Huang
You
People
Path
Negative
Own
Think
Find
Stereotype
Boxed
Understand
Your
I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
Eddie Marsan
Needs
You
Human Being
Characters
Guy
He
Understand
Doing
Get
Human
Being
Human Beings
Wants
Who
Beings
Villain
Why
Play
Thinks
Plays
I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
Eddie Marsan
Saying
Needs
Me
You
People
Human Being
Characters
Guy
He
Understand
Doing
Lot
Get
Human
Oh
Being
Human Beings
Wants
Who
Beings
Villain
Actor
Why
Play
Thinks
Plays
I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.
Eddie Redmayne
Nature
Sense
Worst
Possible
Some
Someone
Structure
Likes
Trade
Understand
How
Fallen
Quite
Working
Things
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