Esperanza Spalding Quotes
		
	
	
		
	
	
	
		When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Esperanza Spalding
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tamzin Merchant
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Olivia Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Francesca Annis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patricia Riggen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachael Ray
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wendell Pierce
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hannah Arendt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				D'Brickashaw Ferguson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				D. H. Lawrence
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				H. P. Lovecraft
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Imelda Marcos
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Hunt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen