There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.


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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS
My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY
There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
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...
P. J. HARVEY
I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
P. J. HARVEY
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, b...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to l...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge t...
P. G. WODEHOUSE