A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
东西
Something
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
音乐在表演中是一种雕塑。表演中的空气被雕刻成某种东西。
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
我已经准备好跳出这个框框，演奏一些不同于大家所看到的东西。
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
我们的音乐没有做出太多妥协，但我们把它带到一个比人们预期的更大的地方。
To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.
对我来说，创业意味着一些不同的东西。我认为这是识别和评估机会。
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
大多数演员会告诉你，他们有某种梦想，想做一些他们正在做的以外的事情。
God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.
上帝给了我一个我从未梦想过的生活。上帝是人，上帝是另一个人。
When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
当人们面对他们从未见过的东西时，他们真的不知道如何反应。
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
当你做你喜欢的事情，你认为你可以继续做下去，你不会考虑退休。
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
你必须有一些值得说的东西，然后才能说出来——写作是一项双重技能，真的。
Just because something didn't happen or a relationship is lost, doesn't have to mean you are over or lost.
仅仅因为没有发生什么事或者一段关系失去了，并不意味着你已经结束或者失去了。
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
我喜欢那些来到片场，创造出一些有点危险、困难或不寻常的东西的导演。
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
全场起立的欢呼声使我……在这样一个人才济济的城市里受到这样的尊敬，真是了不起。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
无中生有是不可能的。
We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.
我们一直都想做这件事，一些你可以跟着跳舞的事情，在内心深处，我们一直认为如果我们能做到，我们可以把一些东西带到桌面上来，但是现场表演总是让我们后退一步，成为一个摇滚乐队。
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
除非你尝试做一些超出你已经掌握的事情，否则你永远不会成长。
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
我成了自己版本的乐观主义者。如果我不能通过一扇门，我会通过另一扇门——或者我要做一扇门。无论现在多么黑暗，可怕的事情总会发生。
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
有时候你做了某件事，然后你就完蛋了。有时候是你没做的事情，你被搞砸了。
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
你可以把自己从世上的苦难中拉回来，这是你可以自由地去做的事情，也符合你的本性，但也许正是这种克制，才是你可以避免的痛苦。