Marianne Faithfull Quotes
I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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I'm a real romantic.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.
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I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.
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I have been recording for five decades now.
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I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
