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" I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since. "
Marilyn Monroe
Learned
Had
Baby
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" I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. "
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" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "
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Treat
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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
" When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own. "
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Always
Father
" A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. "
Marilyn Monroe
Woman
New
Man
" Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. "
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Hug
Been
Bird
" When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. "
Marilyn Monroe
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Started
Five
" I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. "
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I Am
" I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have. "
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Sure
Look
" Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. "
Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes
Rejection
Feel
" I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. "
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Man
Mind
Woman
" Friends accept you the way you are. "
Marilyn Monroe
Accept
You
Way
" I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. "
Marilyn Monroe
Been
Calendar
Never
" 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 don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. "
Marilyn Monroe
Fireplace
Looks
Want
" If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. "
Marilyn Monroe
Anywhere
Rules
Observed
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Night
Me
Alone
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Marriage
Love
Friendship
" When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. "
Marilyn Monroe
Sleep
Straight
Cried
" Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' "
Marilyn Monroe
Men
Accept
Being
" No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
Little
Little Girls
" I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. "
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Look
Making
Mind
" I love a natural look in pictures. "
Marilyn Monroe
Love
Natural
Pictures
" Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. "
Marilyn Monroe
Age
Think
Old Age
" I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. "
Marilyn Monroe
Natural
Spontaneous
Sexuality
" A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself. "
Marilyn Monroe
Man
Alone
Woman
" Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. "
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Stupid
Think
Past
" Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? "
Marilyn Monroe
Life
You
Up
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
School
High School
" I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about. "
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