The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

  • -- George P. Baker 乔治·P·贝克

模仿的本能产生了演员;通过模仿获得快乐的欲望造就了剧作家;为了给这种乐趣提供足够的人物塑造和令人难忘的对话,产生了戏剧文学。

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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

一个社会的逐渐衰落往往是一个自我诱导的过程,试图满足不断增长的食欲,而不是身体上无法生产过去水平的食物和燃料,或维持足够的防御。

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

我不知道我在学校想做什么,但我肯定没有足够的时间来发挥我作为一个学生的全部潜力。

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

你不能以剧作家的身份谋生。你勉强过得去。

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

没有剧作家的演员就像没有油炸圈饼的洞。

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

你不敢低估自己本能的力量。

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

想要靠近水是人类的本能。