All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时,就不再成为真理;它们成为事实,或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是,流行语。

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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

这个角色有很多特点。这种情况并不总是发生,但有些角色是你真正与之建立关系的,就像他们是你的朋友一样。你再也不会进入他们的脑海或者像他们那样思考。

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

一个具有所谓性格的人往往是一种简单的机制;对于极其复杂的人生关系,他往往只有一个观点。

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

成为桂冠诗人让我意识到我有能力发出更大的声音。作为一个诗人,我可以发表更多的公开言论。

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

游戏节目的设计是为了让我们对我们所受的教育中剩下的随机的、无用的事实感觉更好。

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

我在多伦多接受了私人表演老师的培训,他在我成长的过程中表现得非常出色。

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

医疗保险提供了平等的保障,这是私营部门无法做到的。

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

公共教师的职位是不值得羡慕和感激的。