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Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.


P. Chidambaram

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P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore...
P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ...
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...
P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
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