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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

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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Done Half Involvement Next
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Father Horror Said
If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Bad Times Wanted
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Firsts Opera Singing
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
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 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
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
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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

Frightened Get Ill Like
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Hard Knows Trusted
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 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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Beautiful Beautiful Life Show Business
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
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Attitude Myth Turns
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Doctors Nails Skins

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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