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Esperanza Spalding Quotes

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

Esperanza Spalding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1984

Topics

Knowledge Surprise You Beyond Radio

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

Melissa McCarthy

Love People Someone Trying Place

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

Fire Job I Am People Me Story

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Good Morning End Week Go Three

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

Martine McCutcheon

Love Singing Acting Never Anything

One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.

Relationship New York Reading You

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Identity Me Understand More Jewish

I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

Home Women Hate Men Man Hair

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

Lisa Scottoline

Funny Love Challenges Writing You

Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.

Back Farmers She Forever Her Been

To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.

Jonathan Anderson

People Brand You Forget Make

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

Game Golf Late Mad Said Him

As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

Dennis C. Blair

Democracy Enemy Complicated Hand See

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