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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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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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.
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Haven't you heard, though, About the ships where war has found them out At sea, about the towns where war has come Through opening clouds at night with droning speed Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels And children in the ships and in the towns?
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A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.
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Voltaire once said: 'Not to be occupied and not to exist are one and the same thing for a man.' With those few words he captured the essence of a purpose in life: to work, to create, to excel, and to be concerned about the world and its affairs.
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What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.
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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.
