P. J. Harvey Quotes
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte sisters, and Daphne du Maurier.
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I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'
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With this film I have made more money than any of my other films. It was a high-wire act.
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The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
