I began performing professionally when I was 11 years old, first in Broadway, and then by the time I was 13, I started doing opera.

我11岁的时候就开始了职业表演，首先是在百老汇，然后在13岁的时候，我开始演歌剧。

Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

昔之善战者，先为不可胜，以待敌之可胜。

" Rubbish, " said one of the clerks, a thin elderly man in pince-nez, " nobody will volunteer. We must draw lots." He added, " Un-less it is thought that we should go by ages —the oldest first. "

“废话。”一个职员说道。他是一个上了年纪的戴着夹鼻眼镜的老头。他接着说道：“没人会自愿，我们必须抽签。除非有人认为应按年龄决定——最老的先死。”