Demetria McKinney Quotes
I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.
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I really love storytelling.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
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When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.
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'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
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I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
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For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
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A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.
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Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.
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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
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Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
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My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
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I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
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I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.
