I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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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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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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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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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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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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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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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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If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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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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