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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

Marianne Faithfull

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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Song Wonderful Years
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 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
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
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn’t. I don’t think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
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May People Thinking
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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All Country Do People Right
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
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
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
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
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Ashamed Father Mother
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
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 sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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Self Sick Song
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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Stars Thinking Want

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