In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

在文明生活中,一个人的幸福,甚至几乎是他的生存,在很大程度上取决于他的同胞的意见,他不断地扮演着一个研究的角色。

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

我们就像无知的牧羊人,生活在曾经繁荣过伟大文明的地方。牧羊人玩弄着浮出水面的碎片,对它们曾经是其中一部分的美丽结构一无所知。

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

当你被一个演员聘为主角时,他会很害怕。不管情节如何,你的工作就是做一些足够有趣的事情,让他们想进入主角的大脑。

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

一个人应该尊重公众的意见,因为这是必要的,以避免饥饿和远离监狱,但任何超过这是自愿服从不必要的暴政。

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

有时候我觉得我所有的照片都是我自己的照片。我担心的是……人类的困境;只有我认为人类的困境可能只是我自己的。

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

要想知道你对某人的真实看法,可以判断你第一次看到他们来信时的印象。

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。