I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

  • -- Francis Walsingham 弗朗西斯·沃尔辛厄姆

我呼吁上帝作证,作为一个普通人,我没有做过任何不符合诚实人要求的事情,作为一个公众人物,我也没有做过任何不值得我做的事情。

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I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

我发现很难找到一个品牌能理解我想做什么,并真正相信人们想听到一些诚实的、有点不同的东西。所以,我觉得自己有点像个小丑。你在敲每个人的门,试图让他们相信你在做什么。

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

有些事情当你写作很有趣就像他们私人的笑话有趣的你,但没有人会享受他们几乎和你一样担心你要带他们出去。

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

艺术是用人们想表达的任何方式表达人类精神的真实本质。如果它是诚实的,它是美丽的。如果不诚实,那是显而易见的。

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

前几天,我一想到孩子就要离开我了,就哭了起来。你和这个人的关系就在你的肚子里,这真的很神奇。

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

不完美总是缠着一个人,如果他们等着被彻底刷掉,他们就会永远在轴上旋转,不会前进。

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

只要不使用破坏性的手段,想要获得工作报酬,或寻求收入最大化都没有错。

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

我信靠神,他的道与我们的道不同。所以我们不得不这么做,对此我无能为力。

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

如果个人美德的根病了,公共廉洁的果实就必然腐败。