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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
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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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The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
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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 interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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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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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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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 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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I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.
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I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
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I don't talk about my private life.
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I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, the press.
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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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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.
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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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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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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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