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" What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? "
Marilyn Monroe
Good
Want
Three
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" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "
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" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "
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" I want the world to see my body. "
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" 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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" Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. "
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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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Birthday
" An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. "
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Sensitive
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" I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy. "
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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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" 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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Control
Creative
" Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. "
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System
Star
" There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on. "
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Like
Clothes
" I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. "
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Work
Become
" 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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Your
You
People
" 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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My Own
Always
Father
" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
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Privacy
Career
Public
" What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. "
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Course
Wear
Why
" I wish I knew why I am so anguished. "
Marilyn Monroe
I Wish
Wish
Why
" The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. "
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Men
Fool
Truth Is
" Dogs never bite me - just humans. "
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Humans
Dogs
Bite
" 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
Listening
" 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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Brother
Mirror
Look
" We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. "
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Human
Think
Strange
" 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? "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
Growing Up
Sex
" I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. "
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Fireplace
Looks
Want
" A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. "
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Strong
Woman
Strength
" 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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Courage
Old
" 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
Hide
Me
" 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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People
Best
Money