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David Knopfler

"If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack."

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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Donna Grant

"Do not be weary to make money."

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Donna Grant

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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Donna Grant

"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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David Knopfler
"My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters."

Faith

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David Knopfler
"So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped."

Blood

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David Knopfler
"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."

Nature

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David Knopfler
"If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack."

Work

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David Knopfler
"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago."

Fun

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David Knopfler
"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders."

Experience

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David Knopfler
"Trust the tale, not the teller."

Trust

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David Knopfler
"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."

Authorship

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David Knopfler
"Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations."

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David Knopfler
"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."

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