Chris Metzler Quotes
Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I smile a lot in my real life.
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Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
