"I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring."

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Javier Bardem

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“Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.”
“Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster”
“.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.13, Read Books Ltd
“Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.”
“For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.”
“I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.”
“Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.”

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