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" The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. "
Marilyn Monroe
Used
Want
Children
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" If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. "
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" I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. "
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" One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. "
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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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" 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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" Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. "
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" Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. "
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" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "
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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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You
People
" 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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" 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. "
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Will
" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "
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Am
Always
" 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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Blue
Body
Dress
" Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. "
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Sometimes
Rejection
Feel
" The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. "
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Nicest
Dream
I Can
" I don't digest things with my mind. "
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Things
Digest
" 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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Me
Gang
" Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' "
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Accept
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" Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? "
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Life
You
Up
" There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. "
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World
Moment
Yourself
" I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. "
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Work
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" I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. "
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" It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. "
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" I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about. "
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" If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. "
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See
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" I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. "
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" I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. "
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" If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. "
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Life
I Am