P. J. Harvey Quotes
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.
-
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
-
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
-
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
-
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
-
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
-
I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
-
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
-
I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
-
I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.
-
I am proud of my career.
-
I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
-
I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
-
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
-
I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
-
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
-
I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
-
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
-
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
-
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
-
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
-
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
