"I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me."

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Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Sometimes Quotes #Heard Quotes #Translators Quotes

“If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.”
“I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.”

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“We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.”
“The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.”

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“I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation, and it's a very different experience. You're trying to honor the writer. You shouldn't allow yourself, for example, to encounter a sentence that's three lines long and break it up into four smaller sentences.”

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“I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.”
“The mind knows not what the tongue wants.”
“We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.”

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