Elliott Colla Quotes

In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

Elliott Colla

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• Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Help
  • Small
  • Change

• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Want

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Like
  • Find

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• Jackie Chan is a myth.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Myth
  • Jackie Chan
  • Jackie

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• 'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • Looks
  • Progressive

• We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Small

• I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Successful
  • Writer
  • Rather

• In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Risk
  • Philosophy
  • Risks

• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Soul

• I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Better
  • Because
  • Editorial

• It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Weird

• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • School
  • Game
  • Giving

• I'm not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have massive house parties.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • House
  • Winter

• An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Sometimes
  • Intelligence
  • Drink

• Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

  

  Isaac Slade The Fray
  • Party
  • Gold
  • Record

• In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • English
  • Language
  • Masters