Marilyn Monroe Quotes

The studio people want me to do 'Good-bye Charlie' for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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• I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

  

  Victoria Wood
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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.

  

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• I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

  

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• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

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• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
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• I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

  

  Pat Benatar
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• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
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• I love proving people wrong.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

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• There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

  

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• The world wants to like America.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

  

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• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
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• I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

  

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• I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

  

  Rima Fakih
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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• At nine years old I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  

  Elana Meyers
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• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• The studio people want me to do 'Good-bye Charlie' for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
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