I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROEEveryone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
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Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
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I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
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I read poetry to save time.
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All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
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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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You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
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Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting than being one.
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We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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We should all start to live before we get too old.
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I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
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When you try to change you, try to fit yourself to other people’s standards.
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I know I’m not a perfect person but I can make a good relationship last forever.
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The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
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All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
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All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.
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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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Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
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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.
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There are always two sides to every story.
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I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
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