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" I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. "
Marilyn Monroe
Celluloid
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" There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!' "
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" We should all start to live before we get too old. "
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" There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. "
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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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" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "
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" The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. "
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" 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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" I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. "
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" Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? "
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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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" There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on. "
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" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "
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Enjoy
Hit
" 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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" I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy. "
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Sometimes
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" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "
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" Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. "
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World
" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
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Career
Public
" Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. "
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Autumn
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" I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. "
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" I don't digest things with my mind. "
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" Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. "
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World
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" A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. "
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Instinct
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" If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. "
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Anywhere
Rules
Observed
" I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since. "
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Baby
" If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! "
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" I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. "
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Natural
Spontaneous
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" Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out. "
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" Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. "
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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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" In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. "
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