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" A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. "
Marilyn Monroe
Cold
Career
Night
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" I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me. "
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" I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. "
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" I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "
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" I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. "
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" How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. "
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" The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. "
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" A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. "
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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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" I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts. "
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" Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. "
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" If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. "
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Star
Trying
" Fear is stupid. So are regrets. "
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Regrets
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" 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
" I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. "
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Less
Annoy
Found
" 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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Character
Me
Gang
" I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. "
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People
Turn
Listening
" For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. "
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Long Time
Out
Mother
" It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls. "
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Fun
Know
" If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. "
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Her
Laugh
You
" I defy gravity. "
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Gravity
Defy
" I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking. "
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Me
Stop
People
" I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself. "
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Feeling
Know
" Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde. "
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Married
Nothing
" I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. "
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" I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. "
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" I've never dropped anyone I believed in. "
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Never
Anyone
Believed
" Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. "
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" I think I have always had a little humor. "
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" What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. "
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Real
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