Marianne Faithfull Quotes
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
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I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.
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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
