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" I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. "
Marilyn Monroe
Fireplace
Looks
Want
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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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" We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. "
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Twinkle
Stars
Deserve
" The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. "
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Fool
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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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Want
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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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Talent
Myself
" 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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Hurt
Hide
Me
" 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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Place
You
Kiss
" Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' "
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Men
Accept
Being
" I don't digest things with my mind. "
Marilyn Monroe
Mind
Things
Digest
" A smart girl leaves before she is left. "
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Left
Leaves
Girl
" If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. "
Marilyn Monroe
Her
Laugh
You
" It's all make believe, isn't it? "
Marilyn Monroe
Believe
Make Believe
Make
" I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. "
Marilyn Monroe
Within
Work
Become
" Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. "
Marilyn Monroe
Stupid
Think
Past
" I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. "
Marilyn Monroe
People
Turn
Listening
" An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. "
Marilyn Monroe
Instrument
Sensitive
Actor
" I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. "
Marilyn Monroe
Celluloid
Artist
Want
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Change
Two
I Am
" I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. "
Marilyn Monroe
Definitely
Enjoy
Woman
" I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. "
Marilyn Monroe
Character
Looking Forward
Looking
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Mistake
God
You
" At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. "
Marilyn Monroe
Blue
Body
Dress
" If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. "
Marilyn Monroe
Anywhere
Rules
Observed
" I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. "
Marilyn Monroe
Friends
Know
Talk
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
World
Woman
Picture
" Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. "
Marilyn Monroe
Right
Girl
World
" Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. "
Marilyn Monroe
Child
Having
Want
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Man
Girl
Him
" I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!' "
Marilyn Monroe
Thought
Place
Birthday
" I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle. "
Marilyn Monroe
Struggle
Really
Most