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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
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When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
Marianne Faithfull
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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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 never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.
Marianne Faithfull
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I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
Marianne Faithfull -
I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
Marianne Faithfull -
I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.
Marianne Faithfull -
I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
Marianne Faithfull -
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
Marianne Faithfull
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I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.
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My happiness is very fragile.
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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.
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I don't talk about my private life.
Marianne Faithfull -
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
Marianne Faithfull -
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
Marianne Faithfull
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I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.
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My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
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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.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
Marianne Faithfull