“ If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
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“ If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else. ”
- Kenneth Branagh- Copy
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“ I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. ”
- Don Delillo- Copy
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“ The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. ”
- Leonardo Sciascia- Copy
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“ I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then. ”
- Jimmy Buffett- Copy
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“ But, you know, as you get older, my God, the parts get more varied. There's a lot of fun to be had doing a lot of different things. ”
- Alan Bates- Copy
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“ We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 110
“ Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors. ”
- Kenneth Branagh- Copy
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“ Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them. ”
- Jim Henson- Copy
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“ There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. ”
- Elvis Costello- Copy
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“ True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 253
“ I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Membership means never having to say you're sorry… for not having joined. ”
- Leonard Robert Davids- Copy
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“ Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. ”
- Walter Koenig- Copy
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“ Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, they never let it go. ”
- Cal Thomas- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
- 72
“ Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 488
“ Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 305
“ We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 702
“ A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ”
- Ezra- Copy
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