Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  • -- John Watson Foster 科士达

很少有人能充分意识到这种节约在阅读中的重要性,因为阅读几乎完全是选择书籍的第一顺序。为什么,除了一些特殊的原因,在你可能正在阅读最高等级的书的时候,却要读一本劣等的书呢?

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I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

我在考虑执导,但我知道这是一项艰巨的工作,我很欣赏导演们所做的一切,我想做好它。这个机会已经出现了四到五次,我通常会因为剧本而拒绝。

Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

真的,当他们在争论何时何地可以使用耶稣诞生的场景时,这就是我们需要的东西——教堂外的东西。