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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

I’ve always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you’ve got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what’s coming to the boil.

A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.