The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
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Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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I think TV shows have usurped films!
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
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You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.
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If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.
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If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?
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I'm mainstream.
