We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

  • -- Robert Benchley 本奇利

我们总是惊讶于人们在我们出生前就把事情做得很好。

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Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.

任何军人或军人家庭的人对这种分离都有一定的敏感性。每个人都知道军嫂的工作最辛苦。我出生在一个。当我回想起那些日子,我并不感激。

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

作为对作者的启发,我不认为猫可以被高估。他暗示了很多优雅,力量,美丽,运动,神秘主义。我不奇怪许多作家喜欢猫;令我惊讶的是,并非所有人都这么认为。

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

你知道人们最想要的是什么吗?他们希望被怀念。他们希望自己不出现的那一天被错过。当他们离开时,他们希望被想念。

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

人们说,爱是世界上最好的东西,而不是权力。但他们错了。爱是力量的对立面,这就是为什么我们如此害怕它。

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

有时我只以石头、树或黑天鹅绒为背景,不得不想象整个场景。

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

我总是对工作中发生的事情感到惊讶。

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

我出生在底特律,一个全是黑人的社区。

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

最难的事情是信任别人。