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The magic gets lost in translation. -- Richard Roeper
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. -- Robert Frost
Poetry is that which is lost in translation. -- Laurence J. Peter
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love -- Erich Segal
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. -- Robert Frost
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. -- Amisha Patel
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. -- Etgar Keret
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation. -- Beck
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. -- Laura Marling
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. -- Pharrell Williams
I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place. -- Drew Barrymore
I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation. -- Sonam Kapoor
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD. -- Nicolas Cage
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation. -- Etgar Keret
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation. -- Utada Hikaru
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase. -- Ian Holm
If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing. -- James Salter
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great. -- Will Ferrell
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. -- Robert Frost
"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination. -- Emmanuelle Bercot
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means. -- Frank Zappa

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