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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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.
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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.
