P. J. Harvey Quotes

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

P. J. Harvey

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WorkHard WorkDisciplineBetterGet

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

Andreja Pejic

LifeBestProgressHumanityExpose

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

IntelligenceBetterWantPossible

In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer answers to specific political questions. Instead, it looks beyond them.

Stephen Hough

MusicMistakesGenerationPolitical

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

Sonny Terry

GoodYouAwayGotGetLot

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Lloyd Kaufman

ArtProblemCountryIndependentAct

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

CuriousBetterSpeechRoamingBeen

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

VoiceHonorSomeoneYouHeadYour

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Cher

DoingFloatingForeverAbleAround

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

Colin Greenwood

SucceedTryingAimNeverAlways

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

Anushka Sharma

Not PerfectPerfectKnowHumanFans

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

William Sloane Coffin

WomanManNeedLiberationMost

Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different.

William M. Daley

LifePeopleFindSayOfficeLittle

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