David Knopfler Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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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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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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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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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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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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I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
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People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
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Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
