Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.
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...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
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Let them do what I have done.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
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I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of 'The Avengers,' the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
