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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

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

Able Light Trust Unhappy
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
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’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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Answers Hurt Littles
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
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
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.
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Career Groovy Men Rich
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Mean Over Realizing Romance
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 once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
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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Growing Lessons Up Wake
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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Hard Knows Trusted
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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Stars Thinking Want
If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Bad Times Wanted

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.

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