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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Song Wonderful Years
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’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Capricorns Flower Late
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Father Horror Said
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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

Frightened Get Ill Like
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
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

May People Thinking
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
All I can say is I’ve been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, ‘You’re very good.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Body Done Lucky
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Firsts Opera Singing

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