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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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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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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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.
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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?
