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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

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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Career Groovy Men Rich
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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Done Half Involvement Next
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
There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.
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Land People Travel
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 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
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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Cancer Extraordinary Way
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
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
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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Body Done Lucky
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 once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
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
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn’t. I don’t think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
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May People Thinking

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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