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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
Marianne Faithfull
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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
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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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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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I shoot my big mouth off it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
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I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
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You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.
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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've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.
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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 love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
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The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.
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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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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
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I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.
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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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I don't talk about my private life.
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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
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I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.
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