P. J. Harvey Quotes
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
