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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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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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
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I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.
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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.
