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Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: June 25, 1954

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Myself Parents World Envy Teachers

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

Character Time Me World Lifestyle

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Day Fire House Dark Wild Outside

'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.

Great You Hollywood Always Got Well

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

Great Think You Accomplish Country

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.

Life Crazy Think You Matter Try

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

I Am Week More Open Legislation Our

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

Finding Names Track Working Been

Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.

Strength Age Man Famous Horse Lift

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

Live Knowledge Game Long Expensive

When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind's power and vision. When you're inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn't exist.

Jonathan Anderson

Power Vision Time Man World Rest

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

Better Getting Better Feel Learn

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

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