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The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.
Michael Bloomberg

Means, United, Outside

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig

Hard, Same, Her

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
Cornelia Funke

Read, English, Example

If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.
Mstislav Rostropovich

Music, Family, Important

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Robert Fitzgerald

Performer, Particular, Comparable

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
Anita Diament

Though, English, Worked

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter

Time, Lost, Same

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
David M. Brown

Good, Medical, Saying

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