Cynthia Erivo Quotes
The major perk of living in Brooklyn is that everything is there. If I did not want to leave Brooklyn, I could stay there the whole time.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
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Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
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Whatever I do, I always want to get better.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.
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The major perk of living in Brooklyn is that everything is there. If I did not want to leave Brooklyn, I could stay there the whole time.
