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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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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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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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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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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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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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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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I really like to take the time to build things slowly and surely - to get more grounded. But it never felt for certain, like, "One day people will listen to me!" It was more like, "Perhaps I've got something to say." So it feels fantastic. It's good to take the time to think, to find, to search.
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I love the way people dress at the races. I love people dressed to the nines during the day. That formal kind of daywear doesn't really exist anymore except at the races. Also I love the tuffs and the working classes being so hand in glove and relying on each other to make the thing happen.
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I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
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We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
