None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

  • -- Thurgood Marshall 瑟古德·马歇尔

没有一个人仅仅靠自己的努力就能取得今天的成就。我们来到这里是因为有人——一位家长,一位老师,一位常春藤盟校的密友,或者几个修女——弯下腰来帮我们捡起了靴子。

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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

我开始在吉他上做各种奇怪的东西,这成为我演奏的一部分。我开始做和声,弹吉他,拉弦,做所有这些以前没人做过的奇怪的事情。

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

在阿富汗,你不能仅仅把自己理解为一个个体。你把自己理解为一个儿子,一个兄弟,一个亲戚,一个叔叔。你是比你自己更伟大的事物的一部分。

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

我觉得自己像个老师。但现在,我是他的学生。他写了很多我们玩的东西。

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

在短篇小说中,每一件事都要有分量,才能真正成为头等大事。

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

你的一些老师实际上比你想象的年龄更接近你。