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" I like to feel blonde all over. "
Marilyn Monroe
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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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" My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots. "
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" I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about. "
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" I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. "
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" 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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" I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. "
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Best
" I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since. "
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Had
Baby
" Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. "
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Want
" I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. "
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Just
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Make
" First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. "
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First
Person
Prove
" In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. "
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Virtue
Important
" I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me. "
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Real
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" 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. "
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Me
School
High School
" If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. "
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Sitting
Star
Trying
" I love a natural look in pictures. "
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Love
Natural
Pictures
" Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. "
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Husbands
Lovers
Wives
" I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. "
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Look
Making
Mind
" 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. "
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Me
Little
Little Girls
" I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. "
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I Am
Am
Many
" My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50? "
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Me
Growing Up
Sex
" If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. "
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Anywhere
Rules
Observed
" Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' "
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Men
Accept
Being
" A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you. "
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Start
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Flaws
" 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
" Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. "
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" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
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Privacy
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Public
" If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. "
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Sports
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" I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. "
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Less
Annoy
Found
" The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. "
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Men
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Truth Is
" Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. "
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World
Business
Equal