Cynthia Addai-Robinson Quotes
I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.
Quotes to Explore
-
What I do for a living is listen.
-
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
-
People die because they find living too painful.
-
I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
-
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
-
Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
-
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
-
Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
-
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
-
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
-
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
-
I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
-
By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.
-
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
-
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
-
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
-
I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.
-
The first time I fought Ian McCall, I cut carbs completely out of my diet all through training camp. I was afraid I wasn't going to make weight, that I'd get on the scale, and it would be all, 'He weighs 128,' and the people would throw cabbage at me. I basically cut all carbs on the diet, just eat chicken and greens all the time.
-
Circuit training is a great way to go. Keeping the reps high and the weight low, you'll tone your muscles without bulking up.
-
The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.
-
Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
-
As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.
-
I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.
