Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
I don't allow chivalry to die, on my part, but as far as guys taking care of their woman, and, making sure that it's not all about self, it's about giving, and how a lot of guys don't groom themselves, how a lot of guys don't take care of themselves.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.
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At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
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Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
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Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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I really do know football.
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Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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I don't allow chivalry to die, on my part, but as far as guys taking care of their woman, and, making sure that it's not all about self, it's about giving, and how a lot of guys don't groom themselves, how a lot of guys don't take care of themselves.
