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I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

Marianne Faithfull

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
Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Song Wonderful Years
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
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’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
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Brain Singing Use
I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Capricorns Flower Late
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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Stars Thinking Want
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
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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Beautiful Beautiful Life Show Business
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’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
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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All Country Do People Right
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
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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Country People Regret Stupid

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