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• When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

  Albert Brooks

  School, Kids, Careers

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• Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

  Jim Rash

  Writing, Character, Journey

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• Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Two, Directors, Different

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead Talks SMASHED, THE SPECTACULAR NOW, CHARLIE SWAN, and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Skills, Weight

  Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”

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• To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

  W. H. Auden

  Two, Reader, Paraphrase

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• A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

  Emile Durkheim

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

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• The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Keys, Government, Decision

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• I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

  Morgan Freeman

  Giving, Trying, Directors

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business jargon into ministry language. The combination is an encouraging and practical guide to Christ-centered ministry leadership. This book will be helpful to anyone involved in leading a church or serious about modeling servant leadership.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Book, Taken, Biblical

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• I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

  Candice Olson

  Believe, Environment, Better Life

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking, Grandparent, Missing

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

  Alafair Burke

  Law, Rely Upon, Facts

  "What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction" by Alafair Burke, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

  Jennifer Lee

  Mean, Odds, Chinese

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• All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Tasks, Impossible, Accomplish

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• Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?

  Andrea Arnold

  Book, Thinking, People

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• To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

  George Steiner

  Significance, Decipher

  George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tongue, Language, Nations

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• It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Trust, Gratitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Stupid, Butterfly

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• The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

  Joseph Addison

  Trying, Different, Pieces

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the SECOND”, p.534

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• Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

  Mark Tooley

  Government, Justice, Wild Geese

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• It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Bridges, Black, Demand

  Henry Louis Gates (1989). “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds

  Lawrence Durrell

  Kissing, Lovers, Unsaid

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.377, Faber & Faber

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• Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems.

  Honor Harger

  Data, Ideas, Fascination

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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