A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Trying
I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.
我得去工作了，你知道吗?我太忙了。我已经尽了最大的努力，但真的很难。
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
当你抓住一头大象的后腿，它试图逃跑时，最好让它跑。
I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.
我从来没有挣扎着去弄清楚我想做什么，或者是什么让火花为我而去。
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
我正在努力寻找一种不那么容易被期望调节的语言。
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
我在那里浪费了一两年的时间，试图为那些我不知道永远无法获得融资的电影筹集资金。
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
如果下一届国会不继续纠正错误，国会犯的错误就不会那么严重。
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
嗯，我不会说我在一个伟大的班级，但我有一个伟大的时间，我试图成为伟大的。
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
我们都是人，没有达到我们应该达到的目标。我们永远不能停止努力做最好的自己。
We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.
我们没有机会和他们交手，但我们坚持住了，今年夏天我们也将努力做到这一点。
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
我意识到我必须诚实的告诉自己我在哪里，我来自哪里，我想做什么。
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
我不喜欢别人不看着我的眼睛。我转动我的头试图吸引他们的目光。
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
关掉电视，开始挖掘那些不是来自一家试图赚钱的公司的信息。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
我是个演员……或者，至少，我想成为一名演员。
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
当我开始写作的时候，我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中，这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
你的问题是你将如何度过这奇特而宝贵的一生。不管你是想要花时间让自己看起来很好，并制造出一种错觉，认为自己拥有控制人和环境的能力，还是想要品尝它，享受它，并发现关于自己的真相。
We've been trying to get on the ship for a month.
我们试着上船已经一个月了。
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
如果你倾听大自然，所有的声音都是自信地发出来的。我正试着这么做。
It doesn't matter if you've failed, if you've been beaten. All that really matter is if you get back up and try again. Because winning is fun, but winning when nobody thought you would is just awesome.
你是否失败了并不重要，你是否被打败了。真正重要的是你能否站起来再试一次。因为赢球很有趣，但没人想到你会赢球的时候赢球真的很棒。