As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

  • -- Richard John Thompson 理查德·约翰·汤普森

作为作者,你总是在歌曲中出现。如果你接近人类的样子,你就在写共同的经历。我们都做着同样的事情,所以如果你钉住了某人,那么你也钉住了自己。

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

人的本性中有一种卑鄙的东西,它喜欢去想邪恶的事情,它愿意倾听,随时欢迎别人的诽谤,它对善良、伟大和好事的嫉妒。

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

当你弯腰系鞋带的时候,你知道你在变老,当你在下面的时候,你想知道你还能做什么。

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

我和真正伟大的演员合作得越多,我就越愿意接受他们带来的东西。

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

把你的灵魂放在我的掌心让我看,像一颗晶莹的宝石。我要用文字来概括……

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

我很高兴一个人坐在餐桌旁写剧本。

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

无论他们在哪里焚烧书籍,最终也会焚烧人类。