I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  • -- Edith Sitwell 伊迪丝·西特韦尔

我常常希望自己有时间培养谦逊……但是我太忙于考虑自己了。

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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

自从我开始写作,我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页,因为无论什么公众,或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式,按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

我发现并向自己证实的是,歌剧真的很喜欢鲜艳的色彩,你需要一些大胆、野蛮、不可预测、充满激情的东西。你不可能围绕着一些无声的窃窃私语上演一部两小时的歌剧。

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

嗯,我必须告诉你,我写的剧本非常接近骨头。所以我现在正在写第七集,不能告诉你第八集发生了什么。

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

我知道很多人很难相信我是个书呆子…但我是拿着任天堂控制器长大的。

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

专家说你不能同时专注于一项以上的任务。

The scribbler's life is never done.

作家的生命永远不会结束。