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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
突然间,我得到了所有英语演员梦寐以求的角色。我真的很害怕。我说到做到,现在我必须做到。有三天,我不能接电话。
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
我真的试着至少回来回答这样的问题,是否真的是最好的方法,我真的思考得很清楚,我的对手如何表现,裁判如何表现,这些都是需要的。
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
当人们来找我的时候,他们会问,‘我们是一起上高中的吗?还是我在露宿营地和你亲热了?通常情况下,是的,这就是答案,因为我上的是一所高大的高中,和每个人都亲热过。
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
如果我能给卡夫卡、海明威或塞林格打电话,我真的很讨厌,我能向他们提出的任何问题,他们都会有答案。这就是当你读到或听到一些美妙的东西时的魔力——没有人能给出所有的答案。
I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.
我很少能在接电话时不粗鲁地对待别人。有时候,当我回首往事时,我意识到我已经好几个星期没有独自一人了。通过发短信,我至少可以在不打断我正在做的事情的情况下对正在发生的事情有所了解。
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.
尽管我们可以让物种灭绝,但生命是异常强健的,这是件坏事。所以我总是强调,你不能说,‘是不是太晚了?这是一个可怕的问题,因为任何一个答案都会导致无所作为。如果太晚了,你不需要采取行动;如果还不算太晚,你不需要采取行动。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
当一个人成功了,答案是不要撤销成功。它是继续已经做过的事情。
There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.
答案有很多,没有一个是对的,但其中一些肯定是错的。
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
它教会我,克林顿本能地把你作为一个公民的生活,而不是他作为一个人的生活,作为这些事情的正确答案。
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
当问问题的人准备好回答问题的时候,做这项工作的人已经忘记了问题。
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
如果爱是答案,你能换个说法吗?
There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.
还有很多问题要回答。当你看到宇宙的任何一部分时,你必须感到谦卑。