Deborah Joy Winans Quotes
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
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God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
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A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Singing was never my thing.
