Esperanza Spalding Quotes

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

Esperanza Spalding

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• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Future
  • Disappear
  • Cataclysm

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• When it was time for a player to go, he went.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Time
  • Player
  • Go

• I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Career
  • City
  • Player

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Great
  • Think
  • Player

• Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Game
  • Man

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• 'Oh, hello,' Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. 'Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?' 'It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg,' Balder answers. 'Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.'

  

  Libba Bray
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Player

• In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Energy
  • Band
  • Player

• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Long
  • Game
  • Respect

• As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

  

  Jason Giambi
  • Fear
  • Player
  • Failure

• My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Player

• If you do something really well, the entire world beats a path to your door. The number three, number five, number 400 player gets nothing. It's almost a winner take all.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • World
  • Player
  • Path

• I was a tennis player in high school and college.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • School
  • High
  • College

• With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Lost

• I called a couple other things in those time outs, both times. It's what Vince wanted, and again, I was trying to go to the best player.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Best
  • Player
  • To Go

• It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Open
  • Almost
  • Hacking

• Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Season
  • Saved
  • Pau

• Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Player
  • Boundaries
  • Disappear