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Creativity Quote by Miley Cyrus

"I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that"

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There is a hard-won honesty in admitting you’re “not good” at rest. Miley Cyrus frames hiatus not as a glamorous act of self-care, but as a skill she hasn’t mastered - which is a quietly damning critique of the way pop culture sells burnout as ambition with better lighting.

The phrasing is doing double duty. “Every now and again” signals a public pattern: disappear, recharge, return with a new era. That’s the modern celebrity cycle, built for attention economies and algorithmic amnesia. But the turn - “but” - punctures the neat narrative of a controlled break. She’s acknowledging a deeper compulsion: the engine doesn’t shut off just because you announce it will. In an industry where relevance is measured in drops, not years, a hiatus can feel less like health and more like risk management. When your identity is also your product, stopping isn’t neutral; it can read as falling behind.

Cyrus’ career context makes the admission sharper. She’s lived multiple reinventions under high surveillance, from Disney-adjacent innocence to deliberate provocation to seasoned rock-and-soul authority. Each pivot trains an artist to keep moving, to outrun the last version of themselves before the public turns it into a meme. So “not good at that” lands as both self-deprecating and defiant: she knows the prescription, she knows the cost, and she’s telling you that stepping away isn’t a spa day when your job is to stay legible to millions.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cyrus, Miley. (2026, January 15). I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-take-a-hiatus-every-now-and-again-but-im-not-172535/

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Cyrus, Miley. "I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-take-a-hiatus-every-now-and-again-but-im-not-172535/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-take-a-hiatus-every-now-and-again-but-im-not-172535/. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus (born November 23, 1992) is a Musician from USA.

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