"I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

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“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
“The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.”
“Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.”
“Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.”
“Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.”

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