Howard Bailey Jr. (Chingy) Quotes
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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I love Australia and loved growing up here, and that's something I don't want to deny our children, but it's difficult sustaining a career in Australia.
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I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.
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Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.
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I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
