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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.

Marianne Faithfull

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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
Actor
Autobiographer
Diarist
Film Actor
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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Business
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Beautiful
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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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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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
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I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.
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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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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 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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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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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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I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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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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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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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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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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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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