Marianne Faithfull Quotes
I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
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Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
