P. J. Harvey Quotes
People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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TMZ is so disgusting.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
