A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人
Person
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
明天的电影将会和制作它的人相似,观众的数量将会和导演的朋友的数量成比例。
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
我开始为一家只有9个人的小公司打字、整理文件、接电话。那家只有9个人的公司给了我找到自己的路的机会。
I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.
我告诉别人我不会拍照或签名,但我会和他们握手。他们真正想要的就是那种个人的接触。
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
这张新唱片一开始是关于失去的,但它已经演变成关于即使一个人不在身体里,关系如何继续的。
And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.
更重要的是,我不会成为今天的我,不会成为现在的我,如果不是因为这次事故,我甚至可能不会来到这里。
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
我不认为任何一个人,不管是不是艺术家,已经被任何人允许把事情的责任推给其他人。
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
当你在面试我的时候,你是在和一个模仿真实的我说话。我的话里没有什么魔力,只是我在说话。
I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.
我愿意认为我很勇敢。这是一个很好的性格特点。我想我是那种会去救别人的人。
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
我可能是我高中里第一个上耶鲁的孩子。我几乎是在开玩笑。然后,当我到那里的时候,我是你们班上最笨的人。
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
如果你写一个基于真实人物的故事,你会被真实人物和他的生活细节所困。它妨碍了你写自己的故事。
People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.
人们听到这句话会说我很谦虚,但我不是一个谦虚的人,但我必须对我所做的事情诚实,我所做的就是引导别人。
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
最有权力的人是那些自己能做的最少,却让别人负担最多的人。
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I'm a very private person.
我是个非常注重隐私的人。
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
他们说普通人不能靠艺术谋生。但如果你告诉我有些事我做不到,那就是我必须做的。
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
如果你练习一门艺术,要为它感到骄傲,让它为你感到骄傲。它会让你成为一个真正的人。
A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.
婴儿出生后的头三个月是单行道。一个人在做所有的工作,另一个人在哭,睡觉,拉屎。所以当你真正有能力做某件事的时候,他们承认你的存在,这是一件大事。非常重要。
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
如果一个人想独当一面或独当一面,他就不可能把生意做得很好。
My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.
我的观点是,我只是一个人,有时候我看着别人的时候会想,‘天哪,他们花了那么多时间去想那些看起来很荒谬的事情。“但我肯定人们对我也会有同样的看法。