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" I've never dropped anyone I believed in. "
Marilyn Monroe
Never
Anyone
Believed
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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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" 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 don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. "
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" 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. "
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" Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living. "
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" I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. "
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" I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. "
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" At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. "
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" What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? "
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" If I'm a star, then the people made me a star. "
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" Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. "
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" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "
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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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" 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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" My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation. "
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" When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. "
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" Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman. "
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" I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts. "
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Integrity
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" We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. "
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" With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up. "
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" What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? "
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" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "
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