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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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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My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.
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When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.
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I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
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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?
