All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLThe 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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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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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All I can say is I’ve been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, ‘You’re very good.’
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I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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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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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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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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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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