Cy Twombly Quotes
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.
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Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.
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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
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I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had.
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I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.
