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" We should all start to live before we get too old. "
Marilyn Monroe
Live
Get
Too
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" We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. "
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" I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. "
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Money
" I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. "
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" Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. "
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Sex
Carry
" 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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Woman
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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
" We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. "
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Stars
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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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Success
People
" 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!' "
Marilyn Monroe
Thought
Place
Birthday
" I've always wanted a baby. "
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Baby
Always
Wanted
" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "
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Absolutely
Eating
Think
" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
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Privacy
Career
Public
" 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
" 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
Think
" Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions. "
Marilyn Monroe
Speak
Up
Friend
" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "
Marilyn Monroe
Actress
Treat
Money
" When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women. "
Marilyn Monroe
Women
Men
Admit
" A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman. "
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Feel
Important
Man
" In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. "
Marilyn Monroe
Seems
In Fact
Popularity
" It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. "
Marilyn Monroe
True
Radio
Nothing
" In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. "
Marilyn Monroe
Girl
Virtue
Important
" I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. "
Marilyn Monroe
Natural
Spontaneous
Sexuality
" Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' "
Marilyn Monroe
Men
Accept
Being
" A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. "
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Cold
Career
Night
" When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. "
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Outside
Me
Just
" 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
" Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met. "
Marilyn Monroe
Husband
Man
Think
" There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. "
Marilyn Monroe
Playing
Man
Home
" First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. "
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First
Person
Prove
" Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living. "
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Nothing
Living
Long