Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.


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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD
Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS
I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS
For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS
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