Deborah Joy Winans Quotes

Singing was never my thing.

Deborah Joy Winans

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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.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Struggle
  • Tongue
  • Impatient

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Art
  • Question
  • Cool

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Horse

• Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I follow my clients on Instagram.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Reason

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Character
  • Man
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Want
  • Sell
  • Obscure

• We call him Shabba. You know, Shabba Ranks, Mr. Loverman. He likes the ladiez." "When Thom starts singing, you can’t hold back the tears.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Singing
  • Tears
  • Shabba

• In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

  

  Bunker Roy
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Servant

• Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Real
  • Star
  • Exist

• Singing was never my thing.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Singing