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Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much

by Cynthia Erivo · 2025

It is never too late to build the life you’re seeking.Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing that those same lyrics would change her life. Ten years later, she has the chance to… more

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If it bores the life out of you, it's not your life.
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It's hard to become what we don't see
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The bigger the dream, the bigger the steps needed to achieve it. Everything is possible.
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Some flowers, like the peony, bloom against all the odds. But most need to be tended and cared for before they brave the light and open their petals to the sun.
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If it's yours, my friend, you cannot hold it back.
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When you’re an outsider all the time, you’re busy watching everything and everyone. It’s the best way to be safe. People are busy not talking to you while you’re busy watching how they talk to other people, figuring them out. And by noticing your surroundings in such tiny specifics, you can’t help but find sparks of radiance and glee.
Aretha earned me an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, and I was nominated for an Oscar for both Best Original Song and Best Actress for Harriet. I own those accolades and was so grateful for them. Added to the wins of The Color Purple, I was three-quarters of the way to an EGOT at thirty.
Is there someone in your life you can make a pact with; to care for, to be kind to, to support? Life is hard enough as it is; commit to helping another person and let that person commit to helping you.

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It is never too late to build the life you’re seeking.Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing that those same lyrics would change her life. Ten years later, she has the chance to perform those songs on a world stage, showing us that there is always time to keep discovering ourselves, that the journey of becoming is not a finite one.In a series of powerful, personal vignettes, Cynthia Erivo reflects on the ways that she has grown as an actor and a person, the lessons she’s learned over years of performing, and how we are capable of so much more than we think.Just as she had persevered through obstacles on the stage, working step by step, day by day, to align with music, lyrics and dialogue, so too did Cynthia fall in love with running. Through the simplicity of her steps and the beating of her heart, she found a way to fall into deeper sync wit

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2025
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Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much Cynthia Erivo Get the book
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