Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.
 
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	A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.   
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	When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.   
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	I want every Grammy.   
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	When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.   
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	Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.   
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	Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.   
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	I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.   
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	The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.   
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	Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.   
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	The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.   
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	I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.   
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	I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.   
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	Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.   
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	I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.   
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	I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.   
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	The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.   
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	I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.   
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	It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix   
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	The dirtiest mind in the world is the mind of a censor.   
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	What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.   
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	Love is everything for me. It's the way of life. It's the way of expressing and way of breathing for me.   
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	My hope is with each album I learn a little bit more about the songwriting process and I learn how to be more conversational and honest in my writing. Hopefully, all those things come through on this new album.   
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	I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot writer from Hollywood; it means that story becomes integral to making your game. I don't see how you can achieve that without having an in-house writer that sits next to the designer, helping them make their levels, talking with the engineers about where we can tell the story more dynamically, pushing at technology.   
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	If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					