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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.’

Marianne Faithfull

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
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
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
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Men Mother Want
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
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 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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Doctors Nails Skins
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 never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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Hard Knows Trusted
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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Cancer Extraordinary Way
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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Drawing Levels Nice
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
I want to do movies, but I want to do something that’s good. I don’t want to make any more films until I feel that I’m ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
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Believe Film Good Ready Something
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
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want

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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