#ordinary person

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#countless #extraordinary #i #life #mother

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #feeling #finds

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#book #cure #ever #farmer #group

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. ↗

— Donna Summer

#did #extraordinary #extraordinary things #i #just

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#areas #doing #enough #extraordinary #extraordinary things