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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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" 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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" What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? "

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