Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

  • -- Amy Hempel 米·亨佩尔

显然,在新闻业,你被限制在所发生的事情上。美化和神话化的倾向,就在我们身上。它让事情变得更有趣,更接近现实。但新闻业教会了我如何写一个句子,让别人想读下一个。

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That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

这给了我一个教训,那就是你天真地认为乐队可以改变世界。乐队非常天真地认为,只要他们的观众认为他们能改变世界,他们就能。这对我的职业生涯是一个教训,真的。

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

我还说过,你不排除任何选择,因为如果你在公共生活中,因为你想有所作为……显然,你必须对这些可能性持开放态度。

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

如果你知道有人会被你写的东西惹恼,这显然是非常令人满意的,如果他们因为愤怒而嚎啕大哭,那就是蜜糖。

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

你不可能被教得聪明。你要么得到它,要么没有。