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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.

Marianne Faithfull

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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Drawing Levels Nice
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Men Mother Want
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Body Together Yoga
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

All Country Do People Right
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Mother Reading Thinking
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Stars Thinking Want
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Hard Knows Trusted
If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Frightened Get Ill Like
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Land People Travel
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Classical Dad Music Parent
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Father Horror Said
I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Brain Singing Use
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Goes Great Life Want
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Ashamed Father Mother

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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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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