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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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
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I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.
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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?
