#ect

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#chinese #eight #far #home #i

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#crimes #encouraged #ghastly #horrible #i

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#am #artistic #close #did #disparage

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#become #big #big deal #days #deal

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#combination #cover #good #government #ink

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#did #directive #indies #majority #new

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#because #i #interested #just #knew

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me. ↗

— Ann Sothern

#color #correct #finally #happy #honey

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#case #every #experiences #hear #helped

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#attorney #bronx #communities #crimes #devastate