The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

  • -- Robert Brustein 罗伯特·布鲁斯汀

剧院的主要功能不是取悦自己,甚至不是取悦观众。是为人才服务。

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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

一个作家的写作技巧中,一个绝对必要的部分,几乎和他的才能一样必要,就是在惩罚下站起来的能力,不管是这个世界给他的惩罚,还是他对自己施加的惩罚。

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

如果观众走出音乐会,心想,这是多么美妙的经历啊,那么我们已经完成了我们的工作。

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

没有天赋的努力是一种耻辱,但是没有天赋的努力是一场悲剧。

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

请传你的第二个证人,然后再传你母亲,她很担心。

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

我还得重新熟悉一下嘻哈听众。

You know, you don't please everybody.

你知道,你不可能取悦所有人。