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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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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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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You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
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I want to answer their request. We listen to them. They are the owners. I also want them to know we appreciate the passion they have for this franchise.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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'Project Runway' made my name more high-profile. I've gotten to work with a lot of different celebrity clients that I never would have otherwise.
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The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.
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My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
