Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.
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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 in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.
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Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.
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There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.
