People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

人们的幸运和不幸并不完全取决于他们得到了什么,而是取决于他们得到的东西和他们所期望的东西之间的比例。

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It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

当我走在大街上,人们抓住我的手要我签名,而不是坐着聊天时,我几乎感到很受伤。当我写完的时候,我不会出现在头版,但是如果没有公众的关注,我也会很开心。

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

我总是试图超越人们期望我达到的目标。