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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.

Marianne Faithfull

I want to do movies, but I want to do something that’s good. I don’t want to make any more films until I feel that I’m ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
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Believe Film Good Ready Something
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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All Country Do People Right
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
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Growing Lessons Up Wake
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Death Fame Things
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
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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Drawing Levels Nice
It’s always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That’s one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.
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Career Groovy Men Rich
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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Stars Thinking Want
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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Classical Dad Music Parent
I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
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Brain Singing Use
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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Feedback Narcissism Way
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
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.
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Beautiful Beautiful Life Show Business
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
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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Delay Sound Touring

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