P. J. Harvey
P. J. Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey, MBE, known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 October 1969
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I'm definitely pleased ... with the direction of where the program is going.
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I joined the show because I can't get a record deal and when 17 million people a day are watching you the record companies are more interested.
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I'm a business guy. I want this to be a successful business.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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If my show was No. 1 in any other demographic, ... I'd get to be on the sides of buses and billboards all over town. I'd get to be on the covers of magazines. But I get no parties, no balloons. I don't even get a basket of fruit sent to my trailer.
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Individuals are not skilled in setting the boundaries between work and home (and) colleagues fail to respect other's rights to free time.
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I'm telling her not to move around a lot, take it easy. Let's wait at least until Monday. At some point you have to stop playing the game. There are other parties in the world other than fastball. But this would be a pretty special party if we won.
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I?m hoping it was just a scare. But we are not the type of team we were last year in that we are not going to go on these big runs. We are going to be in tight games that are going to be battles.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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I've gotten the bunt sign twice in seven years. I'm not sure why (Buford) changed the sign. Maybe he had some confidence in me. I'm glad he did.
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I've got an area around front that I could swim in for weeks after it rains.
No, that wasn't a factor. We had no excuses.
Is this a crisis? No, it's not a crisis.
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Tanner got routinely left out of surveys of American art. It was really in the 1980s that people realized that you really needed to be paying attention to more than the usual artists we all grew up on. There was a whole other layer ... either because they didn't work in New York, they weren't close friends with the major critics, or they were artists of color or women or Southerners or Westerners.