Marilyn Monroe Quotes
If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
