Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because you feel that I didn't have one single idea of the concrete meaning of what I wanted to say or what you have to feel or what you have to think. For me, this is the beauty, to see the past being born in front of you.
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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.