"Really, it's working your arse off to create something that will almost certainly fail".
It's a graft, and you have to work your arse off, because no one else is going to [do it] for you".
You work your arse off, basically – and if it's a matinee, you have to do it all again in a few hours' time.
I always say: 'Get the boys' respect, work your arse off and then the flash play, your talent, comes out.' In the last two seasons, at the Chiefs and the Roosters, I got players' player of the year.
Even now, he still sees excellence and suffering as interconnected: "The restaurant industry is brutal: you work your arse off; you worry about bookings and gross profit and larder management.
You go to dance school, you train your arse off for five years, you can do a triple pirouette on your head and land in the splits, and then you come out and someone's like: 'What are your measurements?'" It's a long way from Josephine Baker, the dancer who scandalised Paris in the 1920s with her nearly naked routines, and whom twigs admires.
Edward Abbey's prose rasps you like sandstone, roughs you up, kicks your arse off the page and out into the land.
If ever there was a great way to network your arse off while drinking beer and potentially singing a little Karaoke, this would be it.
I do believe that you set the tone in your company that you as a founder work your arse off and expect it of others.
