Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
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There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
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It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.
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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
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I broke my uncle's toy as a kid and never told him about it.
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Imagine a world where everything that can be connected will be connected - where driverless cars talk to smart transportation networks and where wireless sensors can monitor your health and transmit data to your doctor. That's a snapshot of what the 5G world will look like.
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If there is a course that is quant-oriented, you need to focus on that, but if it is a course that is more general management-oriented, do you not need entrance examinations which are more all round?
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Art is not only about angst.
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I’d be happy to be the person that said, “Right. We all die,” And then everybody dies. And I die. I’d be well happy. That’d please me. Man’s made too many mistakes and the majority don’t deserve to be alive because they’ve fucked it up so much for everybody else. So I’d like to see them pay the price, and I’d be happy to go with them.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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What I stand foris what I stand on.
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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.
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Don't wear eyeliner with too much facial hair. It looks strange.
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I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.