Marianne Faithfull Quotes
The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.
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The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.
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To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!
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We look to the Iranian government to sit down with us, hear what we have to say and take action where appropriate.
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
