Translating Quotes

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster
Work Food Money Own Translation Pay Earn Sideline Way Out Kind Spilled Table My Own Poetry Poets Put Contemporary French Sort Always Bread Interested Translating
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share. Paul Keating
Art Best Eyes Culture Experience Long Understanding Indeed Ourselves Has-Been Aboriginal Entire More Through Allow Share Understand Continent Been Effective Australia Story Epic Land Translating Interpret
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. Alex Campbell
Strength Money Political Values Power Living Increasingly Those Parallel Purchase Emerged Economic Economic Power New Material Material Things Traditional Process Translating Working Based Things
You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading. Andrew Sean Greer
Life Love Time Good Great You My Life Reading Become Imitate Books Way Kids Would Point Write Also Great Way Reader Sort Around Got Praise Want Stories Little Then Translating Found Thing Things Start Plays
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. Ang Lee
You Big Reading Books Way Find Had Excitement Comic Comic Books Get Big Screen Screen Translating
Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight. Annie Besant
World Thought Feeling Every Changing Visible Sight Constantly See Colour Thus Aura Itself Surrounds Person Flashes Translating Each
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. Balthus
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I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met. Ben Brantley
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In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture. Brian Greene
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I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable. Elizabeth McCracken
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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. Henry Flynt
Music Imitative Visual Composing About Terms Also Were Began Very Being Which Interested Translating Works
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while. Ian Mckellen
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. James Buchan
Poem Poetry Purpose Contain Like Importance Does Any Information Translating Notice Warning
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. Jhumpa Lahiri
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Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us. Johnny Flynn
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'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are. Jon Bellion
Through Very Literally Translating Translations Aspirations Speakers
I can speak passable Mandarin. I will not be translating at the U.N. anytime soon. Justin Theroux
Speak Will Soon Anytime Translating
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences. Lydia Davis
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It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation. Marek Belka
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Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. Maurice Strong
Today Progress Opportunities Made Past Profit Corporations Say Immense Some Perfect New Environmentally Like Practices Grand Translating Even Damaging
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. Mitch Kapor
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My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's vision, hopefully turning an idea into something people can connect to and relate to. Rachel Morrison
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. Robert Fitzgerald
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Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda. Ronan Farrow
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I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. Ronnie Milsap
Guitar Seven Piano Up Eight Information Translating Play Playing Violin
I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response. Ryan Potter
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