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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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Place
You
Kiss
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" Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? "
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" I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have. "
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" I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. "
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" Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. "
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" The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. "
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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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" Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. "
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" I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle. "
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" I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me. "
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" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "
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Enjoy
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" Friends accept you the way you are. "
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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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" 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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" 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
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" I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. "
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People
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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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Integrity
Kinds
" 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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Turn
Listening
" 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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" An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. "
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" What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. "
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" My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots. "
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Stop
Night
Meat
" If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. "
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Sports
Yourself
Man
" I defy gravity. "
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Gravity
Defy
" I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "
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" There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. "
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" I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men. "
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" Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. "
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" 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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