Cynthia Erivo Quotes
I would love to appear in 'Scandal,' something like that, or 'Grey's Anatomy' because I think they're incredible.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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I thought I was making fifty dollars a week at MGM, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
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When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
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Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.
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I would love to appear in 'Scandal,' something like that, or 'Grey's Anatomy' because I think they're incredible.
