Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I don't like possessions.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Garry Kasparov
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
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Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.
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I'd love to play a musician in a film.
