The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLIt’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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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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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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 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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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’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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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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Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.
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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’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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