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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We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.
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Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.
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Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
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I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.
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I'd love to play a musician in a film.
