The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
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Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
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I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
