Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

自由地看,英语是每一种方言、种族和时间范围的增加和发展,是所有语言的自由和紧凑的组成。

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西,因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候,它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

有时候你的肢体语言足以让一个演员知道你不开心。如果你和你非常熟悉的演员打交道,你真的不需要大声说出来。我不认为你真的需要明确。

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

作家不只是坐下来写作的人。他们危害自己。每次你写一本书,你对自己的看法就会受到威胁。

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

一个人可以选择回到安全或者向前成长。成长必须一次又一次地选择;恐惧必须一次又一次地克服。

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

我们未来的增长依赖于竞争力和创新、技能和生产力……而这些反过来又依赖于我们人民的教育。

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

我们要么作为人类解体,要么突破自我,重新理解作为人类是什么。

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

在演艺圈里,有时候你工作太多,觉得自己会崩溃,然后突然找不到工作。

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

法戈出来后,我平生第一次雇了一个公关。我想,如果我能成功,那就是那时了。

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.

我不在乎一个人的性别或种族。那些事对我不重要。

I don't listen to much modern composition.

我不怎么听现代作曲。