Cynthia Erivo Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
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It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time I experienced that I was like,"Are they mocking me? Is this a joke?" But it's not a joke. They actually identify with my music and that is something that I'm getting used to.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.
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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
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As a singer, I like to have a warm beverage with me all the time.
