If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

  • -- Richard Eyre 理查德·艾尔

如果把艺术仅仅作为一种社会洞察力的手段,幻想就被剥夺了成为普通事物的机会,而现实则被剥夺了成为异国情调的机会。

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Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

候选人不必面对现实。他们谈论他们能完成的美妙的事情,好像提倡它们和实现它们是一样的。他们生活在一个政治虚幻的世界里,从调和利益冲突到为昂贵的项目买单,一切都很容易。

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

这对我来说是一场斗争,因为我有机会成为白人,却被拒绝了。

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

在我没有尝试过所有的和平手段之前,我不会发动战争。

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

事实上,过去是自动保存下来的。

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

我们只是说给和平一个机会。