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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I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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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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I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
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By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
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I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.
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The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
