Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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.
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Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
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I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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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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I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
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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 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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I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
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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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Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
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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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Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.
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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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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
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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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Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
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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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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.