The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

  • -- Chris Van Allsburg 克里斯·凡·艾斯伯格

有机会在两块硬纸板之间创造一个小小的世界,在那里时间依然存在,人们在那里交谈,我告诉他们该说什么,这是令人兴奋和值得的。

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

到目前为止,任何一所学校成功或失败的最重要因素,远比考试、标准或负责任的商业模式方法重要得多,只是吸引受教育程度最高、最令人兴奋的年轻人进入城市学校,并将他们留在那里。

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

显然,反时代的人们对我的遭遇感到高兴,因为这证明了这个时代拆散了家庭。当他们指出女权主义是一件危险的事情时,我只是说婚姻也很不稳定。

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

很明显,当我年轻的时候,有一些东西触动了我,它一直伴随着我。我总是对此感到惊讶,因为我的经历似乎和别人告诉我的有很大的不同,很多时候。

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

但我们还会说些别的。在这个国家,有能力工作的人,有能力工作的人,以及选择不工作的人,你们不能像现在这样继续要求福利。

If it's tough believing what you believe, then maybe it's time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town.

如果你很难相信自己的信仰,那么也许是时候行动了。但是,如果你是一个对任何事情都能坚决坚持自己观点的人,那么你就需要离开这个城市。

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

我现在想扮演对我来说更有趣、更刺激的角色。