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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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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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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This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.
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Work begets work.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I find it remarkable. It's surreal for me that I've gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.
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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.
