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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London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.
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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
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Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.
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I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
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My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
