The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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'A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.'
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
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I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
