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 met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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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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Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.
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Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
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A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.
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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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When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
