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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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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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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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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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
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When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.
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You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.
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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.'
