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• I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

  Sydney Pollack

  Eye, World, Film

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• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  Bill Moyers

  Events, Different, Journalism

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• The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

  Socrates

  Poet

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• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

  Suzy Kassem

  Firsts, Never Trust, Interpretation

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• Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Secret, Strange

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• The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

  Robert Fisk

  Book, Son, Years

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• I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

  Meryl Streep

  Artist, Calling, Nervous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.

  Thomas Malthus

  Expectations, Trends, Population

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• For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Flames, Essence, Heat

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,
  Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
  That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
  But the sinister application
  Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
  Interpreter; who will distort and strain
  The general scope and purpose of an author
  To his particular and private spleen.

  Ben Jonson

  Hurt, Ignorant, Criticism

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• I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

  Brandi Carlile

  Thinking, Heartfelt, Singing

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• It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mean, Class, People

  "Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835". "Bureau of Education. Selections from Educational Records, Part I (1781-1839)" edited by H. Sharp, Reprint. Delhi: National Archives of India, www.columbia.edu. 1965.

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• A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  True Life, Example, Life Is

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.44, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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• I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Attitude, Artist, Odds

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• Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Men, Doors, Dumb

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• An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.

  George Ogilvie

  Theatre, Musician, Directors

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• The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Race

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics”, p.135

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• To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Education, Past, Humanity

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• Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

  Edmond Jabes

  Country, Use, Poet

  Edmond Jabès, Keith Waldrop (1988). “If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabès”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• That way of inspiration
  is always open,
  and open to everyone;
  it acts as go-between, interpreter,
  it explains symbols of the past
  in to-day's imagery.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Art, Inspiration

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• I lost so much energy in taxis, planes, hotels, phone calls and interpreters. Now, with the help from my little successes, I do everything in the same place with everyone around me. That's how a good job gets done.

  Michel Ocelot

  Jobs, Phones, Energy

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

  William Jones

  Nature, Science, Different

  William Jones (1801). “The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of His Life and Writings”, p.286

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• My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.skyword.com

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