The Weeknd

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

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I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Scott Thompson 10

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When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone...

Curtis Stone 14

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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me,...

Billy West 11

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I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about...

Jerry Doyle 10

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I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about...

Jerry Doyle 7

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Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Dar Williams 13

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I love crispy, cool sheets.

Ryan Murphy 14

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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen....

Candy Crowley 13

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I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt 11

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If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40...

John Hawkes 10