但当我站在华盛顿肯尼迪表演艺术中心的Eisenhower剧场,观看我的剧作在进驻百老汇之前举行的试演时,心里想着,落幕之后,我就能回酒店房间,使用从Gerry Clark(其著作曾改编成著名戏剧)作品学到的技巧,修改第二幕的瑕疵。八年前,阿瑟.米勒(美国传奇剧作家)将我引介给美京剧作家协会,当晚我们相谈 甚欢。几星期后,他罹患流行感冒,打电话问我是否能代替他出席纽约大学的客座演讲,演讲主题正是《推销员之死》。来雪城大学念书确实是明智的选择。
I've made some bad decisions. I lost a decade of my life to cocaine addiction. You know how I got addicted to cocaine? I tried it. The problem with drugs is that they work, right up until the moment that they decimate your life. Try cocaine, and you'll become addicted to it. Become addicted to cocaine, and you will either be dead, or you will wish you were dead, but it will only be one or the other. My big fear was that I wasn't going to be able to write without it. There was no way I was going to be able to write without it. Last year I celebrated my 11-year anniversary of not using coke. Thank you. In that 11 years, I've written three television series, three movies, a Broadway play, won the Academy Award and taught my daughter all the lyrics to "Pirates of Penzance." I have good friends.
我曾误入歧途。因为古柯碱成瘾,浪费了生命中宝贵的十年。你们知道我怎么会染上古柯碱毒瘾吗?我只是试了一口。毒品最大的问题在于它们确实有用,直到摧毁你人生那一刻。只要试一 口,你就万劫不复。一旦染上毒瘾,你不是吸毒而死,就是生不如死,但总是逃不出这两 种悲惨的命运。我最大的恐惧是,没有它我会失去写作灵感,没有它我根本无法写作。上个月我庆祝了戒毒11周年。谢谢。这11年来,我写了三部电视系列影集、三部电影、一出百老汇戏剧、荣获奥斯卡奖,并教会我女儿整出《彭赞斯的海盗》(音乐剧)的歌词。我有许多好朋友。
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