We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

  • -- Rebecca Solnit 索尔尼

我们在我们自己的集体生活、我们的国家、我们的世界和社会的发展中发挥着真正的作用。抓住这些机会很重要,而灾难有时就是其中之一。

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I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

我经常觉得我们没有正确的语言来谈论灾难中的情绪。当然,每个人都处于紧张状态,但它也把人们从许多琐碎的焦虑、过去和未来的担忧以及我们拥有的不必要的关注中抽离出来,并以一种非常强烈的方式重新集中我们的注意力。

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

在很多人面前你会变得更紧张。这就是为什么,当你演奏协奏曲时,你要和一个小型管弦乐队一起演奏,在一些你不觉得它像卡内基音乐厅那么重要的地方。

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

我培养的飞行员比联合航空公司还多,他们都是灾难。我人生中每一次试镜都失败了。

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

我只是想在集体无意识上弄个污点。

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

对于探险家来说,愿意被引入歧途是很重要的。

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

我们的歌曲创作过程是集体的。