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I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
Actor
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
Everything
Done
Everywhere
Gone

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Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.
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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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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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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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Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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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.
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