Cynthia Erivo Quotes

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

Cynthia Erivo

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• The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Name
  • Saying

• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Old
  • Trees

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Stop
  • Quality

• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Happy
  • Movies
  • Taught

• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Sex
  • Humor

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • America
  • Happy

• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Employees

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say 'on my own', but I was probably with my oldest sister Sarah, and she would have been 13 or 14 at the time, so she'd have been walking us around. But I got to go places and meet people, and was trusted a lot, without a doubt.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Equality

• In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Opinion

• A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Marriage
  • Holy
  • Rings

• Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Art

• I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • People
  • Happy
  • Age