Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.
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I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.
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Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
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I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.
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I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.
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Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.
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Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
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I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
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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.
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You know, most people really don't know me.
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I want the world to see my body.
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If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
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When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.
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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
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This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
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I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
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As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.