P. J. Harvey Quotes
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.
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You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
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When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
