A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
下来
Down
Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
经历了心碎的痛苦时刻，然后怀孕了，我的整个生活被彻底颠覆了，就像被风吹散了一样。但我从中得到了很多。
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
当我坐下来写一首歌的时候，这是一种即兴创作，但是我把它正式化了一点，让它进入录音室，当我走到麦克风前的时候，我对我要做什么有一个模糊的概念。
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
他们攻击我们，是因为我们有一场真正的草根人民革命，有各种计划，有团结，有联合，我们跨越了种族界限。
At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
在每个星期的开始，我喜欢坐下来，想清楚我要做什么。我可能一周至少尝试两种新食谱。但是我有备用的——什锦饭、肉糕和土豆泥。
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
听着，关于英语学位的事情是这样的——如果你让某人坐下来，让他们列出他们过去一百年来崇拜的作家的名单，看看他们中有多少人获得了英语学位。
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
你必须暂时不去怀疑自己的处境、故事以及角色的反应。你必须稍微调整一下你的可信度，基本上归根到底就是这样。
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
但唯一让我慢下来的是系统。没有一个，两个或三个大到足以让我慢下来，只有系统。是这个系统让我放慢速度，让我的数字下降。不是因为我老了。
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.
所以，你可以在火车站的这一端组建一个管弦乐队演奏一个特定的区域，同时在另一端演奏一些完全不同的东西。在中间它们相遇，或者不相遇，这取决于。
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
冬天不要砍树。不要在情绪低落的时候做出消极的决定。永远不要在你心情最糟的时候做最重要的决定。等待。要有耐心。暴风雨会过去的。春天就要来了。
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
我们每时每刻都被时间的概念和感觉压得喘不过气来。只有两种方法可以逃避和忘记这个噩梦:快乐和工作。我们快乐消费。增强我们工作。让我们选择。
Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
再一次，我们拒绝大多数自助出版的书籍，除非它们有特殊的记录。然而，我们只接受了一小部分，并以不错的价格卖给了主要出版商。但这是一个例外。
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
在戏剧中，我学到的主要问题总是，‘主角想要什么?“这就是戏剧。归根到底。这不是主题，不是想法，不是背景，而是主角想要什么。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
After all is said and done, sit down.
说了这么多，做了这么多，坐下吧。
In life, you will meet two types of people. The ones who build you up, and the ones who will tear you down. In the end, you'll thank them both.
在生活中，你会遇到两种人。那些建立你的人，那些将你摧毁的人。最后，你会感谢他们俩的。
Words can be very powerful. Why not use them to lift someone up today rather than knock them down.
语言可以很强大。为什么今天不用它们来扶起一个人，而不是把他们打倒。
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
直到你从梯子上滑下来，你才知道它有碎片。
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
我们所有的话都只是从心灵盛宴上落下的碎屑。
Do not dwell on those who let you down, cherish those who hold you up.
不要老是想着那些让你失望的人，要珍惜那些支持你的人。