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• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Paradise, Fancy, Lost

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• I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Comedy, Knows

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• Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Interesting, Receiving, Culture

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• Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

  Dave Freudenthal

  Dream, Believe, Opportunity

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• Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Writing, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Communication, Essence, Understanding

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• It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Effort, Done, Links

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would learn to play the violin. Everybody seems to think that you should be able to turn on the faucet one day and out will come the novel. I think for most people it's just practice, practice, practice, that sense of just learning your instrument until - when you have an idea on the violin, you don't have to translate it into violin-speak anymore - the language is your own. It's not something you can think your way into, or outsmart. you've just got to do it.

  Kevin Canty

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

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• When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, White, Able

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• Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

  Matthew Syed

  Excellence, Doe, Concentration

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• Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

  John Arlott

  Food, Wine, Successful

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  Dana Fox

  Trying, Next, Tone

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• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Black And White

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

  PSY

  Song, Thinking, Decision

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• I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Two, Trying, Roles

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• A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Two, Historical

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• Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Healing, Parent

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• In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Men, Order

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• In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Color, Years

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• You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

  Gerhard Richter

  Dream, Would Be, Language

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

  Josh Peck

  Art, Real, Sadness

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• I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

  Ree Drummond

  Tvs, Photographer

  "Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, Talks About Her New Show on the Food Network" by Brenna Cammeron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.

  Shenae Grimes

  Style, Red, Kind

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• I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Two, Literature

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