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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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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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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Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.
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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
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If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
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We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.
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I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.
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Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
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I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."
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I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.
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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.
