Translation is an act of recreation.
Ken Liu
Recitation: by Male by Female
I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
Jennifer Coolidge
WorkGirlManGrowing UpTheatre
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
Andrew Bird
MusicTogetherLookingKindWay
All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.
Jeff Sessions
ConfidenceConversationPartyKnow
Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.
Tom Jenkinson
SimpleStartDirectionThinkThree
Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.
Roger Taylor
ThinkImportantDrumsLikeI Think
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
Robin Gibb
HeartDeathBrainWorldYouMore
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
Ron Paul
WonderWantGoldenUpsetWhyPolicy
Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.
Rupert Graves
PainYouCelebrityAlwaysDisplay
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
Michael Moore
MeGoSpinningWellLikeMidwest
If I have one advantage, it's that I will try to work harder than the next guy.
Jay Leno
WorkWillTryNextGuyAdvantage
At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning.
Jon Oringer
LearningCreativeThoughtSkills
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count Basie
TreatYouBluesWillStillCourse
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