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Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

Marianne Faithfull

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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All Country Do People Right
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
I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Capricorns Flower Late
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
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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Brain Singing Use
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
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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Country People Regret Stupid
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’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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Bad Times Wanted
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Growing Lessons Up Wake
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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Answers Hurt Littles
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Death Fame Things
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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Able Light Trust Unhappy
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

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

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Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

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