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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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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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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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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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I am pathetically law-abiding.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
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I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'
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Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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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.
