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Marianne Faithfull

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
I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Capricorns Flower Late
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
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 do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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Body Together Yoga
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
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Death Fame Things
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
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
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.
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London Paris Syrup
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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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Stars Thinking Want
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
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 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

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