Cynthia Erivo Quotes

I always say that I want to play Serena Williams if they ever did a biopic of hers. I definitely want to do that, and I want to do some films.

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• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Golf

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Unity

• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Man
  • Marriage

• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Up
  • Work
  • Persistence

• We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Want
  • Know
  • Colleagues

• Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Work
  • Business
  • She

• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Class

• Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Running
  • Football
  • Basketball

• What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Driving
  • Grow

• I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Happy
  • Cancer
  • Radiation

• People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • House

• I think the essence of romantic love for women is being the special one, and that's an absolutely terrible trap. If the lover treats certain other people badly, you will be treated that badly, too.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • People
  • Women
  • Romantic

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Virtue

• Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Men
  • Chaos
  • Levels

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• The thought of me wanting to act was not an option when I was growing up, so I was getting my teaching credential.

  

  Emily Kuroda
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Option

• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Water
  • Trust
  • Worry

• I always say that I want to play Serena Williams if they ever did a biopic of hers. I definitely want to do that, and I want to do some films.

  

  Cynthia Erivo