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All Quotes by author - Deborah Joy Winans

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

" Everyone is human, and everyone makes mistakes. "

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

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

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

" I always loved acting, and that's what I wanted to do. It's funny that my first big role is a role where I'm going into a studio to record my singing. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy working. And, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do what I love and call it work. "

" I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard. "

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

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

" I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for. "

" I love my family's music because I love it. It's good. I listen to the Winans all the time. I listen to BeBe and CeCe. I listen to Angie and Debbie. I listen to Uncle Daniel. I listen to Phase 2, my two brothers and my two cousins. I think they're incredible. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" I think my biggest thing is if you don't believe in you, then others are not going to believe in you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Singing was never my thing. "

" 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. "

" To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing. "

" We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted. "

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