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" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
Marilyn Monroe
Privacy
Career
Public
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" A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. "
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" My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50? "
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" What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? "
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" If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. "
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" I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. "
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" Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. "
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" Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. "
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" Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. "
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" Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. "
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" The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. "
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" Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. "
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Me
Gang
" If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. "
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Life
I Am
" I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about. "
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Like
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About
" Fear is stupid. So are regrets. "
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Regrets
Fear
" I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. "
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Girl
Good
Love
" Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever. "
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Gay
Start
Creativity
" I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. "
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Admire
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Myself
" An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. "
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Instrument
Sensitive
Actor
" I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. "
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Natural
Spontaneous
Sexuality
" I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "
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I Think
Famous
You
" I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. "
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Change
Two
I Am
" Dogs never bite me - just humans. "
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Humans
Dogs
Bite
" There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. "
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" I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy. "
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" Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind. "
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People
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" Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. "
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" The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. "
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Dream
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" I read poetry to save time. "
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" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "
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