The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

  • -- William Robertson Smith 威廉·罗伯逊·史密斯

与个人圣殿和仪式有关的神话只是崇拜的一部分;它们的作用是激发幻想,维持崇拜者的兴趣。没有人关心他相信它的起源。

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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

我觉得自己与过去和记忆都有很深的联系。我所做过的每一件事,我都能与之产生共鸣,并在某种程度上感到与之相连。我的生活中没有任何一部分是我看着就说,‘我根本不认识那个人。’

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

整个形象问题都成为阻碍。然后是那些让他们兴奋的人,这就是吸引他们的地方。但我不知道如果我没有这张照片他们是否会关心我。

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

每个人都听过同样的笑话一百万遍,也知道其中的设置。他们厌倦了网络上的大众娱乐。

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

我认为在任何形式的表演中,如果你演过戏剧,你总会得到很好的服务。