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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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
