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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

Marianne Faithfull

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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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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.
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I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
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I have to watch out for being lazy.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.
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When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
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When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.
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There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.
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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
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I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.
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I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
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I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, the press.
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I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.
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If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.
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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
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I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?
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