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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: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
Actor
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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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 wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
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I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
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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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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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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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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
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I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.
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I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, the press.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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