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.
Naomi Campbell
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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My mother taught me to read.
Fiona Shaw
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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.
Kate Adie
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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.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. Salinger
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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.
Tad Williams
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
Edie Falco
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
L'Wren Scott
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I read French much better than I speak.
Cara Black
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
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I often don't read reviews.
Ian Mcewan
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I don't read a lot of books.
Usain Bolt
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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If I could read it, I could play it.
Nat King Cole
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
Gary Jennings
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If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Alicia Keys
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
Cesare Pavese
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If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
Norman Foster
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"I’ve thought of a reason,” Kit MacNeill said
Connie Brockway
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A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
Nick Rahall
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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?
Esperanza Spalding