P. J. Harvey Quotes
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
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I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
