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" I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have. "
Marilyn Monroe
People
Sure
Look
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" I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. "
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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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" I defy gravity. "
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" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
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" Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out. "
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" I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress. "
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" I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. "
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" Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. "
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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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" Fear is stupid. So are regrets. "
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" I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. "
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" It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. "
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People
" How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. "
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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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Life
I Am
" I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. "
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Wish
Feel
Play
" All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.' "
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Hide
Me
" Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. "
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Respect
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" I've always wanted a baby. "
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Baby
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" Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. "
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Live
Experience
Will
" 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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" If I'm a star, then the people made me a star. "
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