Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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I either run or try to play basketball every day.
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
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I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.
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To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
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I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
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You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
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We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
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I generally wear jeans and a T-shirt - very comfortable.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
