No, you cannot beat your wife. No, you cannot hit your sister. No you cannot use abusive language to any woman (or man for that matter) in your life. Because it is simply not acceptable!
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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