The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.
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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
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A chorus is not easy.
