Esperanza Spalding Quotes
There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
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The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.
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I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.
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Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"
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There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
