Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
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A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
