At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

  • -- William Safire 威廉·萨菲尔

在某种程度上,当人们使用一个词时,他们的意思变成了它的意思。

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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

如果认为别人有责任赋予你生命的意义和观点,那就太幼稚了……相反,真正的成人观点是,我们的生活是有意义的,是充实的,是精彩的,就像我们自己选择的那样。

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

我的意思是,演员们最常被问到的问题是,他们怎么能忍受一遍又一遍,一晚又一晚地说同样的事情,但上帝知道答案是,我们不都是这样吗?还不如给钱买。

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

我真的想变得卑鄙、刻薄、坏。这比做个好女孩容易多了。

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

充实地生活每一个行为,就好像这是你的最后一次。