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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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
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If the majority of people said I did something wrong, then I must be wrong, and I will think 'I didn't even mean it like that, why are you treating me like this?' But if a lot of people say that I'm wrong and it's not good, then it must be not good. I will say, 'Okay' and then tell myself that this cannot happen again. I have to grasp it and change it for the better.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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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.
