Lydia Davis Quotes
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
Lydia Davis
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
Xavier Niel
My parents were both entrepreneurs.
Caprice Bourret
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
Dana Ashbrook
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
Zooey Deschanel
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Yul Vazquez
For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
Calvin Johnson
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
Sally Hawkins
I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
Carl Sandburg
No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.
Kirstie Alley
It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.
Matt Bevin
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
Alan Cumming
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
Lydia Davis
