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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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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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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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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I like to look effortless, so I just accentuate my favorite features.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.
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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
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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.
