Any actor will tell you that it is easier to perform than to be themselves.

任何演员都会告诉你表演比做自己更容易。

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Let kids be themselves.

让孩子做自己吧。

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The beginning of love is to let those we love just be themselves and not twist them with our own image.

爱之初是让我们所爱的人做他们自己，而不是依据自己的想象去扭曲他们。

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And he said men of Ohio who let themselves be drafted into the Union army were no better than slaves themselves.

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her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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So it's harder and... But I mean, exams themselves are not much harder than what I expected them to be.

所以这难一点……但是考试本身没有比我想象的难多少。

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Women can relax and be themselves with gay men in a way that's usually not possible with hetero men.

CNN: Gay men, straight women: enduring bonds

It takes caring mentors, and safe places where they can learn and grow, and just be themselves for a while.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at Girls Inc. of Omaha Event

"A lot of people are scared to be themselves, " says Michelson, who references books like Self-Parenting and A Course in Miracles.

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