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All I have to do is what’s right for me.

Marianne Faithfull

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
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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Cancer Extraordinary Way
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
Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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Song Wonderful Years
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 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 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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Feedback Narcissism Way
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
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
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 once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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Country People Regret Stupid
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Ashamed Father Mother
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Capricorns Flower Late

All I have to do is what’s right for me.

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