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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
我试图通过我的写作来阐明我所相信的东西:传记——一般来说是历史——可以是文学中最深刻、最高意义上的文学。
I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
我遇到过这样的球员,他们喜欢躺着打球,就像他们充满了自我一样。你知道,我不在乎摆姿势。看看我,我在乎摆造型吗?
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
我们审视自己生活的光线质量直接影响着我们所生活的产品,以及我们希望通过这些生活带来的变化。
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
如果你把垃圾放进电脑,除了垃圾什么也出不来。但是这些垃圾经过了一台非常昂贵的机器,不知何故变得高尚起来,没有人敢批评它。
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
通往自由的道路并不平坦,我们中的许多人将不得不一次又一次地穿过死亡阴影的山谷,才能到达我们欲望的顶峰。
There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.
我们所有人都有巨大的责任帮助英格兰度过难关。如果我们搞砸了,这将是体育史上最大的灾难之一,我们必须确保它不会发生。
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
想象把人类从黑暗时代带到今天的文明状态。想象力使哥伦布发现了美洲。想象力使富兰克林发现了电。
It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.
我得说,这样舒服多了。嗯,我想我不会和其他乐队一起演奏,我想我已经结束了,但是我破例了,因为他们都是好人。
True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
真爱不会马上发生;这是一个不断增长的过程。它是在你经历了许多起起落落之后发展起来的,当你们一起受苦,一起哭泣,一起欢笑。
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
在我成长的过程中,我接触音乐的途径是通过盗版收音机,你知道,枕头下的晶体管收音机,再听一遍,然后“就再听一遍”,直到你最喜欢的歌曲出现。
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
赢得普利策奖没什么大不了的。这个人说:“我看了几百部得了这个奖的戏剧,你简直看不下去。普利策奖是一个普通的奖项,它的意义很小。
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.
这些植物主要保存在大花盆里,沿着狭窄的铺有路面的人行道两旁一排排地摆放着,园丁的房子就在入口处,游客可以通过这里进入花园。
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I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.
我认为电视节目一直做得很好,原因之一是它能让人感到安慰,让你知道自己将要经历什么。
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
任何相信要想抓住男人的心,就要先抓住他的胃的人,地理考试都不及格。
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
因为在本质上,我对恐惧感兴趣,对勇气和懦弱感兴趣,这些更容易通过小说表现出来,你可以进入人们的脑海。
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
我总是做一些我还没有准备好的事情。我想这就是你成长的方式。当你感到“哇,我真的不确定我能不能做这件事”的时候,你就会坚持下去,这时你就有了突破。
I've been through a lot of struggles.
我经历了很多挣扎。
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
我不太需要通过表演来表达自己。除此之外,我还有很多不同的生活,它们都非常充实。