Esperanza Spalding Quotes

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

Esperanza Spalding

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• Impression
• Grew Up
• Supportive

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• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Teach
  • Guitar
  • Smoke

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • School
  • Art
  • Success

• And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Party
  • Progress
  • Politics

• As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Food
  • Single
  • Politics

• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• You always want your films to go as far as they can.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Want
  • You
  • Always

• Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

  

  Usher
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Sometimes

• Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.

  

  Jack Keane
  • She
  • Strong
  • Security

• 'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Character
  • Night
  • Rose

• I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Hope
  • Belief
  • Mission

• Restarting a musical isn't free.

  

  Ben Sprecher
  • Free

• I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Battle
  • Turn

• When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Family
  • Yourself
  • Successful

• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Family
  • Impression
  • Grew Up