Marilyn Monroe Quotes
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
