A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
个人
Myself
I'm a movement by myself. But I'm a force when we're together.
我是一个独立的运动。但当我们在一起时，我是一股力量。
I sit here by myself, trying to figure out how i got this way.
我一个人坐在这里，想弄明白我是怎么变成这样的。
I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
我只是把自己看作一个关心生活的人。
Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
很多次我问自己:“在你看来，谁是画家?”
I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
我不可能导演。我不能让自己做任何事。
Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
除非我试一试，否则我永远不会真正放松自己。
At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
在日常生活中，我认为自己非常幸运。
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
我已经接受了自己在牧场上快乐地生活了一段时间。
I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
我每四个月放一次为期一周的假来调整自己的步调。
I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.
我只是把自己当成一个学生，想要更多地了解它。
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
我从来没有认为自己漂亮过，现在仍然不觉得自己漂亮。
I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
我真的是一个女权主义者，尽管我从来没有这样称呼自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
我是一个非常爱吃的人，也是一个非常饥饿的人，所以我开始在这条路上寻找答案，当然这也引起了其他人的共鸣。
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
我若不为自己，谁为我呢?如果我不为别人，我是谁?如果不是现在，什么时候?
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
奇怪的是，当我开始录制唱片时，我并不知道我在录制唱片。我对整件事有点反感，把自己关在地下室里，开始弹钢琴，只是为了找点事做。
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
我为形象而打扮。不为自己，不为公众，不为时尚，不为男人。
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
所有的小说都是关于犯罪的。你很难找到没有犯罪元素的小说。我不认为自己是犯罪小说家，但我的书中也有犯罪。如果你想反映真实世界，这就是讲故事的本质。
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
无论如何，艾夫斯鼓励我进入音乐领域，尽管他自己作为一名作曲家经历了如此艰难的时期。