I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

我喜欢用动物,因为它们有助于消除读者的怀疑。我们对牙医有一些想法。我们对犀牛牙医没有太多想法。

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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

我在电视行业干了四五年,到最后就没钱了。我有点讨厌自己。我不再觉得自己像个演员了。这听起来很傻,但当你在做一个戏剧时,你使用了不同的肌肉,它把所有的蜘蛛网都吹走了。

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

因此,我们唯一最重要的挑战是帮助建立一种社会秩序,其中个人的自由将真正意味着个人的自由。

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

我去看任何视觉上新颖的东西,任何关于摄影的技术。技术不会让照片变得不同,但有人会用它。

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

想法很简单。真正区分绵羊和山羊的是执行想法。

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

如果我命中两个全垒打,我就会去投一个球,这可能会对我有所帮助。

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

你的想法是独一无二的,因为你是唯一知道什么是可能的人。