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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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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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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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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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My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.
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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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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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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'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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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I shoot my big mouth off it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
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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 have to watch out for being lazy.
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Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.
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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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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'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.
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