The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

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• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Country
  • Powerful
  • Same

• I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • American
  • Cinema
  • Crown

• Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Women
  • Summer
  • Competition

• The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Place
  • Succeed
  • Meeting

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Will
  • Follow
  • Opening

• As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Always
  • Abortion
  • Late

• People tend to keep their distance.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Distance
  • Tend

• Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Connection

• Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Business
  • Attitude
  • Sales

• Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• I think it's fair to say that maybe some point down the line, there might be a UK-U.S. trade agreement, but it's not going to happen anytime soon, because our focus is in negotiating with a big bloc, the European Union, to get a trade agreement done, and the UK is going to be in the back of the queue.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Focus

• Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at it, give it a few seconds, and your eye will start to move through the painting.

  

  David Salle
  • Painting
  • Path
  • Start

• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Day
  • Name

• I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Home

• I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

  

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