Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
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The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
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I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
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I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
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My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.
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The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
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Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to?
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Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
