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" Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. "
Marilyn Monroe
Try
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Star
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" I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. "
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" Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. "
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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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" I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. "
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" 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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" Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. "
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" Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. "
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" I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. "
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" I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. "
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" I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. "
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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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" I think I have always had a little humor. "
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" A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. "
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" I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. "
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" The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. "
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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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" Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. "
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" I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. "
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" If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! "
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" 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. "
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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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" I want the world to see my body. "
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" In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. "
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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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