P. J. Harvey Quotes

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

P. J. Harvey

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ChangeMusicWordsMeaningYouWay

When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.

Jim Woodring

TimeSpeakLanguageAmericaPlace

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

UnderstandExpensiveGotFilmEven

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

John Tiffany

BestMeWorldWorstRealLine

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Siri Hustvedt

WorkArtWordsMeCreateBuild

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

Trisha Yearwood

LoveWinSongYouGoingThen

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

Robin Yount

BrokenBaseballGolfYouBackPlay

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Michael Leunig

CircleClubOutStayLoopInner

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Don Hewitt

ThinkBackNewsPoliticiansGive

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

Christian Louboutin

ClothesThingsMillionDirecting

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow

HopeBookWillWritePaySomeday

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Antony Garrett Lisi

TimeWastedMy TimeCentVirtually

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

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