I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

-- Robert Harris 罗伯特·哈里斯

我认为自己在文学上就像一个熟练的车工，或者编织篮子的工人;一个陶艺家，也许:我做一些人们想买的稍微有趣的东西。

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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

我的意思是，还有很多导演可能更擅长改编小说，也更乐于按照特定的流派改编。我希望有一天能做那样的工作，但不管怎样，我太被自己的材料吸引了。

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I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

我本来只是一个茶水男孩，或者类似的人，但我很快就宣布，我想成为一名外国记者，我很天真，但也很雄心勃勃。

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The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.

个人的健康状况相当于结肠的健康状况。

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