Cynthia Erivo Quotes

Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  

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• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

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• I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

  

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• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

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• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

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• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

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• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

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• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

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• A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

  

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• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

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• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

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• A serious mistake in a nightie, A grave disappointment all roundIs all that you'll get from th'Almighty, Is all that you'll get underground.Oh he said: 'If you lay off the crumpetI'll see you alright in the end.Just hang on until the last trumpet.Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend.'

  

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• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

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• I can't even look at those 'women's magazines' anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.

  

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• If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

  

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• When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
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