Lydia Davis Quotes
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.Lydia Davis
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
Zoe Kravitz -
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. Abrams -
Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
Rand Paul -
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
Caitlin Doughty
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee -
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad -
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
Zach LaVine -
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo -
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
Patricia Cornwell
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
Adam Cohen -
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
Kamisese Mara -
If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
Paige Craig -
I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
Ian McShane -
Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
Karan Singh Grover -
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
Rachael Ray
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
Becky Lynch -
That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
Bartlett Sher -
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
Walter Murch -
I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.
Amandla Stenberg -
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
Lydia Davis