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That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. -- Gilbert Parker
Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. -- Clemence Poesy
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life. -- Bruce Beresford
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. -- Athanasius
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life. -- Patrick Warburton
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. -- David Eagleman
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me. -- Steve Vai
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else. -- Noah Taylor
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses. -- Nathan Wolfe
I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do. -- Rick Pitino
The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. -- Kevin Costner
I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world. -- Zhou Xun
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it. -- Ian Mckellen
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. -- Caio Fonseca
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. -- Prem Rawat
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. -- Jane Fonda
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them. -- Eric Carle
One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages. -- Molly Antopol
I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced. -- Oliver Stone
I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life. -- Dustin Hoffman
Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once. -- Madeleine Albright

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