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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.

Marianne Faithfull

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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London Paris Syrup
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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Land People Travel
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’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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Bad Times Wanted
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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Country People Regret Stupid
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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Mean Over Realizing Romance
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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Cancer Extraordinary Way
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
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
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Mother Reading Thinking
I’d love to make more money in America, that’s the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It’s a shame. I’m trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I’ll be much happier.
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Heart Shame Trying
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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Body Together Yoga
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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Answers Hurt Littles
I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Self Sick Song
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Growing Lessons Up Wake

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