Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

每当你发现自己站在大多数人一边时,就是停下来反思的时候了。

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By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

顺便说一下,如果你代表你的国家做你的工作,你会在会议上强烈地提出你的立场,而对方也会这么做。在我的职业生涯中,我遇到过很多非常激烈的会议,人们互相大喊大叫。

All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

我所有的书都要花很长时间去研究。在我开始写作之前,我花了几个月的时间来研究,在写作的过程中,我经常不得不停下来查阅资料。在我当地的图书馆,我是最好的顾客之一!这项研究需要几个月的时间。

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

我希望我们能更明确地思考这个问题,而不是把我们的直觉当作道德的既定标准,而是对它进行反思,对道德问题这一事实持更开放的态度,思考我们应该怎么做。

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

不要写任何你能打电话的东西。不要给你能说的任何东西打电话。不要说任何你能小声说的话。不要窃窃私语,你可以微笑。不要对任何你能点头的东西微笑。能眨眼的地方不要点头。

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

每当我开始写小说的时候,我总是在寻找两件事:一点能让我思考“如果……会怎样?”以及一段以问号结尾的历史。

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

如果他们不读书,如果他们不爱读书;如果他们不强迫自己阅读,我不认为他们是真正的作家。

It's harder than you think, to find someone who truly believes in your unequivocal, unconditional awesomeness.

要找到一个真正相信你毫不含糊、无条件的伟大之处的人,比你想象的要难得多。

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

我的意思是,总会有大制作的空间,但看到另一面是件好事。

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

我不会离开推特。如果没有头脑的少数人打败了有思想的大多数人,我们都将难逃厄运。

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

我的大部分工作都是在独立电影中完成的,如果你有五次机会,那你就很幸运了。

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

我爱一切古老的东西;老朋友,旧时代,旧习惯,旧书,旧酒。

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

如果你不得不不断提醒自己一件事,也许事实并非如此。

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

每当我厌倦了生活,我就喜欢在大自然中漫步。

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

一个人独处时旅行更有意义,因为他思考得更多。

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

演讲中最宝贵的东西是停顿。