Marilyn Monroe Quotes

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.

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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
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Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.
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It was really important to us to strip back the songs to the way that they were written. The way that I think music brings us together, like we’re in the living room, so I can kind of push the walls down. And especially with some of these more sensitive songs, and to present them in that raw acoustic way was a really exciting way to introduce the new music.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.