When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

  • -- Susana Martinez 马丁内斯

当我还是一名年轻的检察官时,我被叫去指证我的老板。我本可以让步的,但我没有。我向他站了起来。他因此炒了我鱿鱼

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Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

年轻人不想成为任何人的第二。每个人都想一夜成名。看看我要等多少年,我要走多少条路,我要唱多少首歌。现在我才刚刚开始,永远不会结束。

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

一个非小说作家在他或她面前有一个人物的形状,并不断完善它。一部非小说作品并不像小说作品那么难写,但它最终并没有那么令人满意。

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

女权主义者把我烦死了。我听从自己的直觉,如果这对年轻女孩有任何帮助,那就太好了。但我宁愿他们把这更多地看作是跟随自己直觉的一课,而不是模仿别人。

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

我倾向于拒绝最初以电子书形式出版的书籍。至于直接把书卖给电子书出版商,我只会在所有传统出版商都拒绝的情况下这么做。

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

对一个领导者的最后考验是,他把信念和意志留给其他人。

Even the best fall down sometimes.

即使是最优秀的人,有时也会跌倒。