David Knopfler Quotes
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
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Anything can happen when people run for office.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?
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Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
