Esperanza Spalding Quotes
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I often don't read reviews.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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I never read comic books as a kid.
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
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I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.
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One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
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When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
