A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

  • -- Augustine Birrell 比勒尔

传统的好书通常是一本坏书,是我们已知的一个放松的沐浴。真正的好书无疑是一种创新的创造行为,在其中,我们,读者,成为同谋者。

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I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我觉得和别人玩比做我自己更舒服。然后,形势发生了逆转。通过我的表演,我对自己变得更自在了,然后我把更多的自己带到了我所扮演的人身上。

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

如果我们不能通过理性、通过影响、通过榜样、通过艰苦的努力和个人的牺牲来修补文明的坏地方,我们当然不能通过武力来做到这一点。

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

但就我个人而言,我并没有成为一名演员的野心。我对幕后工作很感兴趣。

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

我打碎了一面镜子,倒霉了七年,但我的律师认为他能给我五年。

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

阅读的能力唤醒了我内心深处对精神活力的渴望。

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

书不是人,但它们仍然活着。