Quotes About Understanding

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

None of us should assume stuff.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

I was never interested in writing a 'Mommie Dearest,' getting even with Mia - none of that.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!

When you're around somebody for a long period of time, they know you and you know them. So, there's a lot of nonverbal communication that happens.

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'

Disagreement is something normal.

I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not.

I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It's why you want to meet somebody who's in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don't necessarily want to be with another actor.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

I think 'Normal People' is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do and looks at respecting the other person.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.