I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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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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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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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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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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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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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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I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
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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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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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If I let myself sink into depression, I won’t be able to get out. And then I’ll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
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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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