I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLRelationships 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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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.’
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I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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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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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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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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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.
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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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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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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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