P. J. Harvey Quotes
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
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I have a very small public.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.
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You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
