Cynthia Erivo Quotes
I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success... gain more love.
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My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
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Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
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Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.
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I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.
