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" I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. "
Marilyn Monroe
Just
Wonderful
Make
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" Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions. "
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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 career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
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" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "
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" A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. "
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" I defy gravity. "
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" In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. "
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" I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. "
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" I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. "
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" With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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!' "
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" You know, most people really don't know me. "
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" Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. "
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People
" Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. "
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" A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. "
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" I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. "
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Public
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" Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. "
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" The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. "
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" I read poetry to save time. "
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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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Breath
Next
" It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. "
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" There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on. "
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" It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. "
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" I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. "
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" Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman. "
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" 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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" Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' "
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