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With Fame, You Know, You Can Read About Yourself, Somebody Else's Ideas About You, But What's Important Is How You Feel About Yourself - For Survival And Living Day To Day With What Comes Up.

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Marilyn Monroe

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With Fame, You Know, You Can Read About Yourself, Somebody Else's Ideas About You, But What's Important Is How You Feel About Yourself - For Survival And Living Day To Day With What Comes Up.

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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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Men Who Think That A Woman's Past Love Affairs Lessen Her Love For Them Are Usually Stupid And Weak.

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Dating A New Man Is Like Holding A Strawberry Milkshake; First The Taste, Then The Pleasure.

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This Industry Should Behave Like A Mother Whose Child Has Just Run Out In Front Of A Car. But Instead Of Clasping The Child To Them, They Start Punishing The Child. Like You Don't Dare Get A Cold. How Dare You Get A Cold! I Mean, The Executives Can Get Colds And Stay Home Forever And Phone It In, But How Dare You, The Actor, Get A Cold Or A Virus. You Know, No One Feels Worse Than The One Who's Sick. I Sometimes Wish, Gee, I Wish They Had To Act A Comedy With A Temperature And A Virus Infection.

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But Square-cut Or Pear-shaped, These Rocks Don't Lose Their Shape. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.

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Of The Nude Pictures: Sure I Posed. I Needed The Money.

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There Is Just No Comparison Between Having A Dinner Date With A Man And Staying Home Playing Canasta With The Girls.

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Dogs Have Never Hurt Me. Only Men Have.

Nothing Happens Without A Reason.

Fame Is Fickle, And I Know It. It Has Its Compensations But It Also Has Its Drawbacks, And I've Experienced Them Both.

Dogs Never Bite Me. Just Humans.

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Friends Accept You The Way You Are.

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We Should All Start To Live Before We Get Too Old.

Face Your Fears

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Isn't There Any Other Part Of The Matzo You Can Eat?

It’s Easier To Look Sexy When You’re Thinking Of One Man In Particular.

Creativity Has Got To Start With Humanity And When You're A Human Being, You Feel, You Suffer. You're Gay, You're Sick, You're Nervous Or Whatever.

I Used To Think As I Looked Out On The Hollywood Night, 'there Must Be Thousands Of Girls Sitting Alone Like Me Dreaming Of Being A Movie Star.' But I'm Not Going To Worry About Them. I'm Dreaming The Hardest.

I Am Involved In A Freedom Ride Protesting The Loss Of The Minority Rights Belonging To The Few Remaining Earthbound Stars. All We Demanded Was Our Right To Twinkle.

Just Because You Fail Once Doesn't Mean You're Gonna Fail At Everything.

I Always Felt I Was A Nobody, And The Only Way For Me To Be Somebody Was To Be - Well, Somebody Else. Which Is Probably Why I Wanted To Act.

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Nearly Everyone I Knew Talked To Me About God. They Always Warned Me Not To Offend Him.

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People Respect You Because They Feel You've Survived Hard Times And Endured, And Although You've Become Famous, You Haven't Become Phony.

Consider The Fellow. He Never Spends His Time Telling You About His Previous Night's Date. You Get The Idea He Has Eyes Only For You And Wouldn't Think Of Looking At Another Woman.

Acting Isn't Something You Do. Instead Of Doing It, It Occurs. If You're Going To Start With Logic, You Might As Well Give Up. You Can Have Conscious Preparation, But You Have Unconscious Results.

I'm Going To Be A Great Movie Star Some Day.

Arthur Miller Wouldn't Have Married Me If I Had Been Nothing But A Dumb Blonde.

Enjoy The Fact That You're A Woman And Men Will Enjoy It Too.

There Are Many Times When A Woman Will Ask Another Girl Friend How She Likes Her New Hat. She Will Reply, 'fine,' But Slap Her Hand To Her Forehead The Minute The Girl Leaves To Yipe, 'what A Horror!'

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Gee, I Never Thought I Had An Effect On People Until I Was In Korea.

If You Can Make A Girl Laugh, You Can Make Her Do Anything.

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If Marriage Were Only Bed, We Could Have Made It.

There Is A Future, And I Can't Wait To Get To It

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I Often Wake Up In The Night, And I Like To Have Something To Think About.

Ever Since I Became A Movie Star,i've Been Really Weird.

Being A Movie Star Was Never As Much Fun As Dreaming Of Being One.

A Girl Does Not Need Anyone Who Does Not Need Her.

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When You're Young And Healthy You Can Plan On Monday To Commit Suicide, And By Wednesday You're Laughing Again.

A Sex-symbol Becomes A Thing, I Just Hate Being A Thing. But If I'm Going To Be A Symbol Of Something I'd Rather Have It Sex Than Some Other Things We've Got Symbols Of.

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All Little Girls Should Be Told They Are Pretty.

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