Cynthia Erivo Quotes

If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way.

Cynthia Erivo

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Way
  • Natural
  • Order

• The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wonderful

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Help
  • Day

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Work
  • You
  • Energy

• As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • War
  • Growing

• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Laugh
  • Emotions

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Candy

• My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • Father
  • Respect

• I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Value

• I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Why
  • Play
  • Skating

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Up
  • Song
  • Failure

• You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

  

  Ann Cotton
  • People
  • Done
  • Words

• Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.

  

  Clinton Sparks
  • People
  • Different

• If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way.

  

  Cynthia Erivo