There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

  • -- Alexander Payne 亚历山大·佩恩

对于一个故事应该是什么样的,有一种奇怪的坚持。“主角必须有同情心!””他们说。不管这意味着什么。我从不参与那种讨论。我从来没用过‘同情’这个词。我只知道“有意思”。

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The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

我最重视的一般大会和这类会议的方面是讨论。这就是为什么人们聚集在一起:听取不同的意见,而不是通过决议。

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

他们把你拖到那里,你知道,一周又一周,在这样的星际室里。最后他们说,我们什么也没找到,但现在是特别检察官的时候了。

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

然而,向公众提供信息的努力也鼓励了负责任的公众讨论,这些讨论成功地就许多科学家支持的有分寸的方法达成了共识。

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

正如他们所说,我是一个典型的饥饿艺术家。