Deborah Joy Winans Quotes
To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
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I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
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All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
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To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.
