Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

Elgin Baylor Lumpkin

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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
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• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

  Harold Brodkey
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• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Learn
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• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
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• I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

  

  Rand Paul
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• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
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  • Hope
  • Religion

• I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Change
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  • Size

• I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't love it, and I wouldn't just wear something because someone put me in it.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Love
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• This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

  

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  • Work
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• I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

  

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  • Love
  • Government
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• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
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• As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

  

  James McCartney
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• Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.

  

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• I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

  

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• When Raghavendra Rao garu approached me to do a film on Lord Venkateswara, my initial response was 'What more can we do than Annamayya?' But he asked me to go through the script, and I really liked it.

  

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• So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

  

  Deborah Norville
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• There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

  

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  • Country
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• I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

  

  Lou Gramm Foreigner
  • Singing

• I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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• No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this digital stuff.

  

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  • Values
  • Stuff
  • Digital

• I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Singing
  • Stuff
  • Engineers