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There's 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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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