Cynthia Erivo Quotes
My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.
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Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.
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I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.
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The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.
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When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
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The world is still sexist.
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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
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My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
