I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

  • -- Lillian Florence Hellman 丽莲·海尔曼

我不能也不会为了迎合今年的时尚而削减自己的良心,尽管我很久以前就得出这样的结论:我不是一个政治人物,在任何政治团体中都不会有舒适的位置。

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Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

尤其是当你扮演一个角色这么多年,这个角色最终会反映出你是谁,我想从那时起我已经改变了很多,但这也代表了我十几岁时的很多样子。

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

每天早晨,我的角色们都带着雾蒙蒙的脸迎接我,尽管有些冷淡,但他们愿意鼓起勇气,在耀眼的流沙和空白纸的沼泽中再向前走一天。

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

一个时代的激烈争论在另一个时代看来是毫无结果的,因为知识既能改变我们所寻求的,也能改变我们所发现的。

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

我现在安慰自己的良心说,把难听的话写在纸上总比让妈妈记在心里好。

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.

没有什么比一个人出于自己的良知而行动,从而有助于使集体良知焕发生机更强大的了。

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

在我的职业生涯中,我从未踏上过走向争议的征途。我从来没有故意放火。