“I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.” ThreeFatherGamesMissingFiguresDadComfortBasketballUnderstoodMy FamilyMy DadCoachesTherapyChicagoComfortingKnightsPassed AwayFather FigureDad Passed Away Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.” MeanLongSaidWarProblemGovernmentForceSuccessfulMilitaryMissingKingsPeriodsUnderstoodWeaknessEnglandGravesAdministrationRemedyCrownsSophisticatedCoincidenceMachineryMedievalNavalMilitary PowerGreat MilitaryHenry VWarships Author:Nicholas Rodger
“I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.” PeopleThinkingCreativeFeetMissingUnderstoodProducersCampsCreative People Author:Kevin Spacey
“Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.” MenWholeForgetMissingDirectorsUnderstoodFemaleMalesFavorsSuperiorityColleaguesGoing To WorkScope Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.” PeopleKnowsCountryActionTogetherFormGuyCuttingMissingSceneConsciousUnderstoodHollywoodHorseWesternMediumsCriticizeVehicleBad GuysGood GuyNuanceScenery Author:John Wayne
“If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.” IfsKnowsFatherMissingMarriedUnderstoodExtraordinary Author:Gloria Vanderbilt
“I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.” ImpossibleMissingCoupleUnderstoodHollywoodYesterdaySwingsMeritocracySeniority Author:Ben Affleck
“The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets.” WellsMadeUseStreetsMiddleMissingFiguresUnderstoodPressesEastFamiliarJournalistRegimesMiddle EastSaddamHusseinScenariosRosie Author:Christopher Hitchens