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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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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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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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.
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I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
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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?
