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" I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle. "
Marilyn Monroe
Struggle
Really
Most
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" It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. "
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" Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. "
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World
Woman
Picture
" 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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Marriage
Love
Friendship
" A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. "
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Symbol
Sex
Thing
" I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about. "
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Like
Up
About
" A smart girl leaves before she is left. "
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Left
Leaves
Girl
" There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. "
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Mistake
God
You
" Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever. "
Marilyn Monroe
Gay
Start
Creativity
" It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls. "
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Yourself
Fun
Know
" Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? "
Marilyn Monroe
Look
You
Worst
" I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. "
Marilyn Monroe
I Am
Talent
Myself
" I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. "
Marilyn Monroe
People
Turn
Listening
" 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 am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. "
Marilyn Monroe
Emotional
Victim
I Am
" Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. "
Marilyn Monroe
Like
Glamour
Beauty
" Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. "
Marilyn Monroe
Live
Experience
Will
" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "
Marilyn Monroe
Acting
Enjoy
Hit
" We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. "
Marilyn Monroe
Human
Think
Strange
" Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. "
Marilyn Monroe
Imperfection
Beauty
Genius
" I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. "
Marilyn Monroe
Character
Looking Forward
Looking
" 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
" One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. "
Marilyn Monroe
Way
Woman
Feel
" I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. "
Marilyn Monroe
Stars
Right
Ride
" Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. "
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Sex
Part
Go
" A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. "
Marilyn Monroe
Woman
New
Man
" I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. "
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Less
Annoy
Found
" If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. "
Marilyn Monroe
Her
Laugh
You
" I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men. "
Marilyn Monroe
Swimming
Golf
Men
" I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself. "
Marilyn Monroe
Myself
Feeling
Know
" Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde. "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
Married
Nothing