The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.
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The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.
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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
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Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.
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I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.
