P. J. Harvey Quotes
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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Change is one of my favourite words.
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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
