Deborah Joy Winans Quotes
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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 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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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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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 don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I follow my clients on Instagram.
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We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.
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The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.
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All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being.
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Singing was never my thing.
