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" 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
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" I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. "
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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 am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. "
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" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "
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" I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. "
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" 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. "
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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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" It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. "
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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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" 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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Working
" If I'm a star, then the people made me a star. "
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" 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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" When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own. "
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Always
Father
" I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. "
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Character
Looking Forward
Looking
" 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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Survival
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" A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. "
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New
Man
" A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself. "
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Man
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Woman
" Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. "
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World
Business
Equal
" What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. "
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World
Real
Feeling
" The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!' "
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Men
Girl
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" Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. "
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" A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings. "
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" I think I have always had a little humor. "
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" I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. "
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" I've always wanted a baby. "
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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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Hurt
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" 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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" 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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Flaws
" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "
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Alone
Am
Always