"What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing."

-- Robert Fitzgerald

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“The star of the team IS the team. 'We' supercedes 'me'.”
“Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.”
“I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.”

Source : "Josephine de la Baume on Mark & "Dreamcore" Style". Interview with Lauren Houssin, www.elle.com. May 16, 2011.
“[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?”
“An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?”
“My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.”
“The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.”

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