Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

  • -- William Hurt 威廉·赫特

成名不会让我感到成功——除非一个人在追求平庸。

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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

我意识到有一种期待,作家们在这个阶段不可避免地会踌躇不前,他们无法实现自己第一本书成功的承诺,下一本书永远不会像前一本书那样让人满意。它只是增加了我被挑战的感觉。

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.

这些人固执己见,如果他们感到约束被放开了,但其中一个环节,他们将在一个月内咬牙切齿地摆脱良好秩序的职业生涯,而不是在三个月内被重新找回来。

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

一个成功研究项目的经典例子是牛顿引力理论:这可能是有史以来最成功的研究项目。

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

我总是觉得我想用我自己的方式做我的事业。我从不跟随任何人的脚步,他们所做的一切。

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

我没有有名的邻居,即使有,我也会避开他们。我不坐喷气式飞机。

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

哦,好吧,我想取得商业上的成功。我猜。

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

我几乎在有手艺之前就出名了。

The most successful people are so original.

最成功的人都很有创意。