Chris Metzler Quotes
You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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I'm an idiot.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater.
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Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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I love waking up in my home and being with my children and my husband. And I get an enormous amount of satisfaction out of my work. I really love working. I said it: I love working. It really grounds me, and I like helping people.
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Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
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You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.
