…There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being… - Esperanza Spalding

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…There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and it's done. That's the magic.

Esperanza Spalding

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Esperanza Emily Spalding (October 18, 1984) is an American jazz bassist and singer.

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