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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.

Marianne Faithfull

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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Career Groovy Men Rich
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
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Father Horror Said
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
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

All Country Do People Right
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Goes Great Life Want
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
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 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
I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Brain Singing Use
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Cancer Extraordinary Way
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Ashamed Father Mother
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Growing Lessons Up Wake
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Men Mother Want
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

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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