Deborah Joy Winans Quotes
I was at a point where I couldn't find an agent or a manager, and I said, 'Okay, Lord. If this is what you have for me, I need you to work that. I need you to open doors.' I was at that point of truly surrendering whatever my will was, and, 'Lord, if this is what You want, You do it.' And, He did it.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
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Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.
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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
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I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."
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I was at a point where I couldn't find an agent or a manager, and I said, 'Okay, Lord. If this is what you have for me, I need you to work that. I need you to open doors.' I was at that point of truly surrendering whatever my will was, and, 'Lord, if this is what You want, You do it.' And, He did it.
