The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
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I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful.
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I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
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Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.
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Through the care of the Samaritan's Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life - a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
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Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.
