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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• That's the best worship you can get when the worship leader is there with no other intentions and ready to sing their heart out for the Lord.

  

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• I didn't have drama in high school. So when I graduated high school and started at Wayne State in Detroit, I told my parents I was going to major in theater. And they were like, 'OK. Why? You've never done it.' But, it was just what I wanted, and they came to see my very first show and, from then, completely supported me.

  

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• Health and a positive body image are part of my personal values.

  

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• My parents would take us to double-feature movies on the weekends, and I would just point at the screen and tell them that that's what I wanted to do.

  

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• I think that a sense of loyalty is something that a lot of people lack, just period, in life.

  

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• I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know that's my family's thing; that not what I do.'

  

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• I often joke with my husband and say to him, 'You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That's all I know how to do.' LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn't expect too much from me.

  

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• I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

  

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• I actually never wanted to sing, and I thought that I was never going to sing, but I see that God had other plans.

  

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• I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

  

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• 'Greenleaf' is nothing like 'Empire.' I think 'Empire' stands alone in what they are doing. It's a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families - the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.

  

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• Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.

  

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• I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.

  

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• My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

  

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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.

  

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• When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed because I know Him.

  

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• In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.

  

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• Being from a family in church and being a Christian myself, I pray daily.

  

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• I just entered the wonderful world of 40s, so anything anti-aging, I'm jumping on.

  

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• Singing was never my thing.

  

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• I have 18 or 19 first cousins, and we're all very close.

  

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• I love the Lord. I did grow up in a gospel family.

  

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• My Auntie CeCe - I can kind of joke and say all I need to do is pray. But that's literally what she does... She lives what she sings. I've learned a lot about her in that way, so in bringing her to the stage, I knew what sort of demeanor she needed to have. Her songs are very reflective of who she is in real life.

  

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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.

  

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