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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

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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The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.
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I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, the press.
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To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
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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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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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I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
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I don't talk about my private life.
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I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.
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I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
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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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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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All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'
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Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
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I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
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