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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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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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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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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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 don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.
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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.
